Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Policlínico Universitario “Juan Bruno Zayas”. Mantua, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Policlínico Universitario “Juan Bruno Zayas”. Mantua, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Policlínico Universitario “Juan Bruno Zayas”. Mantua, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Introduction: arterial hypertension represents an important burden of morbidity worldwide, the lack of adherence to treatment has medical, economic and psychosocial repercussions.
Objective: to characterize adherence to treatment in hypertensive patients at the Juan Bruno Zayas polyclinic medical office No. 6, Mantua, during the period January 2021 - June 2023.
Methods: an observational, descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted, the universe consisted of 403 patients classified as hypertensive, a sample of 88 hypertensive patients was selected by non-probabilistic sampling, theoretical and empirical methods were used, such as the Martín-Bayarre-Grau questionnaire to assess adherence and a survey to measure knowledge about the disease and the factors that influence non-adherence to treatment, descriptive statistics were used in absolute and relative frequencies.
Results: predominance of the age group over 60 years, female sex, and pre-university level; the time of evolution of the disease was more than 10 years; the influential factor in non-adherence to treatment was forgetfulness and less than half of the sample studied presented adherence to treatment.
Conclusions: the lack of adherence to treatment in hypertensive patients at the Juan Bruno Zayas polyclinic medical office 6 is a health problem that needs to be solved.
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