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Chairman NMA
Dr Umar Muhammad Muktar
Chairman NMA Sokoto
Abstract
| Volume 10 Number 3 - 4 July - December 2022 |
| Jimoh AO, Faragai AY, Sani Z, Tukur UM, Hudu SA |
| Introduction: Poor adherence to medication is a major problem among patients with hypertension, and has been identified as one of the main causes of failure to achieve adequate control of blood pressure (BP). Patients with hypertension who have elevated BP as a result of their poor adherence to medication remain at risk for serious morbidity and mortality. Objectives: The objectives of this study were (1)- To investigate the level of adherence to antihypertensive medications among the patients. (2)- To investigate the effect of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use on adherence to antihypertensive medications. Methods: The study was conducted at the department of medicine of Murtala Muhammad General Hospital of Kano State, Nigeria. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 208 patients, adopting the eight-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS) for the assessment of medication adherence and using the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Questionnaire for the assessment of the CAM use. Data analysis was done using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and SPSS V16. Results: Adherence to antihypertensive medications as measured by MMAS-8 in this study was 30.0%. Poor adherence to treatment in this study was found to be 46.0% and moderate adherence was found to be 24.0%. Target BP (<140/90mmHg) values were achieved in the significantly higher percentage in adherent patients (57.3%) compared to the moderately-adherent group (24%) and poorly adherent group (18.7%). The frequency of CAM use in this study was (67.8%). Conclusion: This study found no relationship between poor adherence to antihypertensive medication adherence and the use of CAM, p ? 0.05. |
| 10.47837/CMJ.202193.1 |
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