Hypertensive patient's compliance and its consequence effect on the patient quality of life, Jeddah-KSA

Background: Hypertension is one of the global health problems and a major risk factor for stroke, coronary heart disease, and premature death. Different methods were used to measure the therapeutic compliance of hypertensive patients. Objectives of the work: to determine the compliance of hypertensive patients with their management plan. Method: This is an observational cross-sectional study that had been conducted in private hospitals in Jeddah city; the data was collected through an online published questionnaire to measure patient compliance towards medical therapy and their management plan in Saudi Arabia. All data were analyzed by SPSS program version 20 and p-value <0.05 will be considered significant. Results: The study included 340 hypertensive patients with (38.5%) of them were at the age group (45-60) and (67.2%) were females. The prevalence of poor compliance rate was (78.8%). There was a significant association between poor patient compliance and their educational level, the degree of information provided by their doctor, the follow-up visits, poor relationship with the doctor, less frequent doctor visits and investigations and also no blood pressure measuring follow up at home. The most common causes of low compliance were feeling better and forgetting to take their medication. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the level of compliance was low among the studied hypertensive patients. There were many factors associated with this. Counseling and health education about these factors can be done to those hypertensive patients to improve their compliance to the pharmacological and non-pharmacological aspects of their management plan which consequently affect the control of their blood pressure and their quality of life.