TY - JOUR ID - TI - Medication Adherence in Hypertensive Diabetic Patients AU - Hasan Alwan Baiee AU - Mustafa Bahaa Makai PY - 2022 VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - 569 EP - 574 JO - Medical Journal of Babylon مجلة بابل الطبية SN - 1812156X 23126760 AB - Background: Diabetes-related hypertension increases mortality risk by 7.2 times in the underdeveloped countries such as Iraq, with agreater risk of death. In developing countries, patients’ adherence to chronic illness treatments such as hypertension and diabetes is low.Nonadherence is linked to higher rates of hospitalization and poor health outcomes. Objectives: The aim of this study to determinethe prevalence of medication adherence among the hypertensive diabetic patients and to identify factors that associated with poor ornonadherence to medications. Materials and Methods: This is a hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study. The study includeda sample of 385 hypertensive diabetic patients of both gender, their ages above 18 years. The study was carried out from February2022 to the end of May 2022 at the consultation clinics at Imam Al-Sadiq and Marjan Teaching Hospitals, Babylon, Iraq. Followingverbal consent, the participants were interviewed using a prepared structured validated and reliable questionnaire will be use thatincludes demographic characteristics using the Morisky 8 Item Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) was used to assess medicationadherence. Results: This study showed that more than half of the patients (51.2%) had low adherence, whereas 22.9% had mediumadherence. Those with high adherence constituted 26.0%. There were statistically significant associations between good adherence andhigh level of education, younger age, and nonsmoking. Patients with good adherence to medications have better blood pressure andblood sugar control. Conclusion: The level of medication adherence among diabetic hypertensive patients in Babylon province is low.

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