COMPLIANCE AND ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF LAHORE

Objective: To determine that factors that affect compliance and adherence to medications undergoing hypertensive treatment in hypertensive patients.

Design: Descriptive type of cross sectional

Place and duration of study: It took 8 months starting from 2 August 2017 to 29 March 2018 in Lahore General Hospital, Mayo Hospital Lahore and DHQ Layyah

Subjects and Methods: Purposive sample 165 ward patients with questionnaire on sociodemographic and compliance and adherence were filled.

Results and Conclusion: Major causes of non-adherent nature were expensive medications, lack of symptoms, lack of money, forgetfulness, lack of awareness due to poor educational status and irregularity in drugs consumptions due to non-serious attitude to the potential harms of the disease.

Keywords: Compliance, adherence, medications, forgetfulness