The prevalence and associated factors of nonadherence to antihypertensive medication in secondary healthcare.

Purpose: Non-adherence (NA) to medication is a major contributor to treatment failure in hypertensive patients. Factors of the ecological model, at family/healthcare professional, service, and system levels, are rarely evaluated as correlates of NA in hypertensive patients.

Methods: This crossectional study assessed the prevalence of and associated factors of NA to antihypertensive medication among 485 hypertensive patients upon receiving secondary healthcare.

Adherence to antihypertensive medication after referral to secondary healthcare: A prospective cohort study.

Background: Nonadherence (NAd) to antihypertensive medication is associated with lack of blood pressure control and worsened long-term outcomes. Increased access to a programme for high-risk cardiovascular patients has the potential to reduce NAd and improve clinical outcomes. We evaluated implementation NAd prevalence and risk factors among severely hypertensive patients after 12-month-long access to secondary healthcare centres.

Self-efficacy beliefs, locus of control, religiosity and non-adherence to immunosuppressive medications in kidney transplant patients.

Aim: Adherence to immunosuppressive medication is essential for favourable kidney transplant outcomes. The present study aims to investigate how self-efficacy beliefs, health locus of control and religiosity are associated with adherence to immunosuppressives in post kidney transplant recipients.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 88 recipients with more than 1 year after transplantation.