Compliance and hypertension

Abstract

Despite decades of attention to noncompliance to treatment for hypertension, the problem remains a significant factor in the inadequate control of blood pressure. Current approaches to enhancing compliance use patient demographics, medication characteristics, clinical factors, health beliefs, and the quality of patient-provider communication. Clinical researchers are just beginning to apply a new approach that views compliance as a behavior change taking place over time. In this view, patients do not simply change their behavior through a one-time decision to take their medication as directed by their physicians; they move through five stages of behavior change. Clinicians can increase compliance by assessing their patients to determine the patient's stage of behavior change, then matching their interventions to that stage.

Identification of psychosocial factors of noncompliance in hypertensive patients

“…Compliant patients are defined as those who accept their physician's advice to start drug therapy and who take their medication at least 80% of the time. 9,10 Noncompliance means constant neglect rather than just temporary forgetfulness or neglect of treatment. 3 Medication noncompliance is a serious healthcare concern and has provided challenges to the healthcare providers.…”

Compliance Among Adolescents with Arterial Hypertension

“…According to several doctors, the easiest method of evaluation of patients' compliance is a medical interview of the doctor with the patient about the regularity of prescribed medicine intake and following recommendations pertaining to modifications of lifestyle (increased physical activity, diet low in calories with a limited amount of sodium, decreased intake of alcohol and quitting the habit of smoking) [6,7].…”

Análisis bibliométrico de las publicaciones científicas españolas en la categoría <i>Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering</i> de la base de datosWeb of Science (1997-2008)

“…Sin embargo, a pesar de las propias limitaciones que el análisis mediante el FI presenta y siendo conscientes de las circunstancias que influyen en las ratios de citas [11] , este trabajo permite identificar los principales Centros de Investigación españoles que publican en el área de Metallurgy & Metallurgical Tabla III. Colaboración internacional de autores españoles en artículos publicados en el área Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering (1997-2008 Engineering, aunque la posición en un supuesto ranking nacional varía en función de la variable por la que se ordenen los datos.…”