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Drug adherence with hypertension status at the bajoe community health centre of bone regency in 2016
Hardiyanti
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Abstract
This study aimed to understand the relation between compliance of taking medicine and the hypertension status in Bajoe community health centre of bone regency. The study was observational analytical and used cross sectional study design. Population of the research was all hypertension patients in working area in Bajoe Community health center of bone regency in 2015. purposive sampling technique was utilized and 310 respondents were chosen as primary hypertension patients that consume anti hypertension medicine Data were analyzed through a SPSS program with chi square and logistic regression test. Further, stratification analysis to evaluate the relationship between the main independent variable and dependent variable was standardized by each covariate variables potential confounder (age, sex, family history, salty food intake, smoking habit, physical activity and obesity). The research result indicated that more hypertension suffered from respondents who were not compliant in taking medicine (66.7%). Incompliance in taking medicine who experienced hypertension was found mostly on elderly (73.1%), females were the same as males (66.7%), family history (73.7%), consuming salty food (67.1%), smoking (67.4%), tendency not to participate in physical activity (69.6%) and obesity (89.2%) with p value <0.05. This study concluded that there is relationship between compliance in taking medicine with hypertension status after been controlled by age, sex, family history, salty food intake, smoking habit, physical activity and obesity, but the variables is not cofounder.