Antihypertensive treatment compliance and obstacles to its improvement. Results of Russian program ARGUS-2

AIM: To study barriers made by the patients for adequate treatment of arterial hypertension.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: The ARGUS-2 trial was made in 15 centers of 13 cities of Russia. Anonymous questionnaire survey covered 1298 patients (796 outpatients and 502 inpatients). The patients answered the following questions: 1) what are basic problems of life with hypertension; 2) compliance with intake of antihypertensive drugs; 3) causes of missed intakes of the drugs; 4) opposition to intake of drugs by the patients. Questioning procedure was preset by the trial protocol.

RESULTS: Only 37.4% (38.9% outpatients, 34.6% inpatients) were the treatment adopters. Drug intake was missed most frequently because offorgetting. The problems of life with hypertension were differently interpreted by patients and physicians: for the latter main problems were financial and routine while AH complications were on the 6-7 place. The latter were of primary importance for the patients while financial problems took place 4-6 Barriers to regular intake for the patients were poor self-control and unawareness about side effects of the drugs.

CONCLUSION: Complience of the patient can be improved only by complex approach: improvement of education, higher motivation, active involvement of patients into the treatment process, better contacts between the physician and the patient.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2008

Erschienen:

2008

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:80

Enthalten in:

Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 80(2008), 3 vom: 15., Seite 76-82

Sprache:

Russisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kobalova, Zh D [VerfasserIn]
Starostina, E G [VerfasserIn]
Kotovskaia, Iu V [VerfasserIn]
Villeval'de, S V [VerfasserIn]
Baranova, E I [VerfasserIn]
Bogachev, R S [VerfasserIn]
Volkova, N I [VerfasserIn]
Drozdetskiĭ, S I [VerfasserIn]
Kisliak, O A [VerfasserIn]
Koziolova, N A [VerfasserIn]
Kolina, I G [VerfasserIn]
Krasnova, Iu N [VerfasserIn]
Lopatin, Iu M [VerfasserIn]
Maksimenko, V V [VerfasserIn]
Negoda, S V [VerfasserIn]
Tarlovskaia, E I [VerfasserIn]
Tiukalova, L I [VerfasserIn]
Khokhlov, R A [VerfasserIn]
Freĭdlina, M A [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Antihypertensive Agents
Comparative Study
English Abstract
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Randomized Controlled Trial

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.05.2008

Date Revised 19.11.2015

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM179206443