Correlation between medication adherence and quality of life in aged patients with hypertension from ;communi ties / 心血管康复医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the correlation between medication adherence and quality of life (QOL) in aged pa‐tients with hypertension from communities .Methods :Chinese questionnaire of quality of life in patients with cardi‐ovascular disease (CQQC) and Morisky medication adherence scale were used to investigate and analyze 197 aged pa‐tients with hypertension from communities .Results:Total score of CQQC was (78.69 ± 9.36) scores in the 197 aged patients with hypertension from communities .In which ,77 cases (39.09% ) possessed good medication adherence , and 120 cases ( (60. 91% )) with poor adherence to medication . Compared with those with poor adherence to medi‐cation,therewassignificantriseintotalscoreofCQQC [(75.73±8.52)scoresvs.(83.31±8.76)scores ,P<0.01] .Pearson correlation analysis indicated that QOL was significant positively correlated with medication adher‐ence (r=0.397 , P<0.01) .Conclusion:Community health staff should pay attention to influencing factors of med‐ication adherence in aged patients with hypertension ,take individualized and targeted interventional measures to im‐prove their adherence to medicationand quality of life .