Irregular treatment of hypertension in the former Soviet Union

Roberts, Bayard; Stickley, Andrew

doi:10.1136/jech.2010.111377

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“…Problems with adherence are believed to be higher in developing countries [9,26]. For instance among former Soviet Union Republics, only 26 % of patients prescribed treatments for hypertension took them daily [27]. This is important as adherence significantly reduces cardiovascular events or death among hypertensive patients [25].…”

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“…Patient-related factors include medication characteristics, cognitive function, demographics, coexisting illness and illness representation factors including health beliefs, beliefs about medications and knowledge about illness [2,17]. Co-payments can also have a negative influence on adherence to medicines for CV diseases including hypertension [11,27,29]. These factors have resulted in concerns with the current state of managing patients with hypertension across countries, with substantial room for improvement in its management [9,25,30,31].…”

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Patient-related beliefs and adherence toward their medications among the adult hypertensive outpatients in Tanzania

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/59545/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. AbstractIntroduction: Hypertension is a leading global health problem requiring lifelong treatment. However, adherence to antihypertensive medicines is a problem, higher among developing countries. Consequently, there is a need to determine current adherence rates and their associations among developing countries to plan future initiatives. Methods: Cross-sectional study among adult outpatients with essential hypertension in Tanzania. Pre-designed questionnaires were used to gather information on adherence rates and patient-related beliefs. The main outcome measure was adherence. Results: 180 participants were included, with females making up 65%. High adherence rates in 54% of patients. Patients' belief about their medication and its necessity were higher in the high adherent group and concerns about their medicines and their necessity higher in the low adherent group. Conclusion: Adherence rates were low compared to a suggested level ≥ 80 %.

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Patient-related beliefs and adherence toward their medications among the adult hypertensive outpatients in Tanzania

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“…Although longitudinal survey data on hypertension management in Russia are scarce, some data are available. Two surveys that posed the same questions in 2001 and 2010 found a slight decrease in the daily use of medication among respondents with a hypertension diagnosis (Roberts et al 2010;.…”

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Components and possible determinants of decrease in Russian mortality in 2004-2010

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Andreev²,

McKee³

et al. 2013

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BACKGROUNDAfter a long decline, life expectancy in Russia substantially increased in 2004-2010; this is the longest period of health improvement that has been observed in the country since 1965. This study is the first analysis of this positive trend. OBJECTIVESWe seek to determine the causes and age groups that account for the additional years of life gained in 2004-10 and the remaining gap between Russia and Western countries, to assess to what extent these recent trends represent a new development relative to previous mortality fluctuations, and to identify possible explanations for the improvement. METHODSWe present an analysis of trends in life expectancy, and in age-and cause-specific mortality in Russia and selected countries in Eastern and Western Europe. We use decomposition techniques to examine the life expectancy rise in 2004-2010 and the Russia-UK life expectancy gap in 2010.

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“…Details on the study samples are described elsewhere (Roberts et al 2010;Balabanova et al 2012). The percentages of respondents replying 'don't know' to each of the three key questions of interest to this paper are shown in Table 1.…”

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Things Can Only Get Better? Changing Views of the Past, Present and Future in the Former Soviet Union

McKee¹,

Richardson²,

Roberts³

et al. 2013

Europe-Asia Studies

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Irregular treatment of hypertension in the former Soviet Union

Abstract: A high proportion of those who have been identified by health professionals as requiring hypertension treatment are not taking it daily. These findings suggest that irregular hypertension treatment is a major problem in this region and will require an urgent response.

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Patient-related beliefs and adherence toward their medications among the adult hypertensive outpatients in Tanzania

Patient-related beliefs and adherence toward their medications among the adult hypertensive outpatients in Tanzania

Components and possible determinants of decrease in Russian mortality in 2004-2010

Things Can Only Get Better? Changing Views of the Past, Present and Future in the Former Soviet Union

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