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Adherencia al tratamiento farmacológico y no farmacológico en pacientes con hipertensión arterial en el Centro de Salud Carlos Elizalde, Cuenca 2024
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2025-09-08) Siguencia Cantos, Kely Jazmin; Ureña Cajamarca, Daniela Alexandra; Roldán Fernández, José Vicente
Background: Hypertension is a problem with worldwide repercussion being the main risk factor for cardiovascular morbimortality, for its management it requires pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment, lack of adherence to it increases the risk of relapse, appearance of complications and delays in recovery. Objective: to determine the degree of adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment in patients with arterial hypertension in the Carlos Elizalde health center, Cuenca 2024. Methodology: quantitative cross-sectional analytical study, carried out in 255 hypertensive patients at the Carlos Elizalde health center in Cuenca, in whom the level of adherence to pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment was determined. The measures used to present the results were frequencies, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Chi-square, Student's t-test, prevalence ratio, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Results: 62.0% were female, 52.2% were aged up to 64 years, 60.4% had completed primary school, 58.6% were housewives, 57.6% were married, 60.4% had a socioeconomic level of stratum IV, 62.8% had a disease evolution time of 10 years or less, 38.8% were non-adherent, 62.0% had a good lifestyle, and 46.3% experienced high threat. Conclusions: women are more adherent to treatment than men, the variables that showed a statistically significant relationship with non-adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment were the type of farming occupation and the lifestyle: danger, low or regular.