Morisky study on stable drug use by patients with arterial hypertension

Abstract

Purpose: Study of medication adherence among arterial hypertension patients of family healthcare centers in Ulaanbaatar. Resources and methods of study: The study was conducted between May and August 2019 using the cross-sectional prospective model of analytical study. A simple random sampling was collected from 27 FHCs’ physicians of 9 districts of Ulaanbaatar, the 186 patients of those FHCs were evaluated using Morisky scale questionnaire consisting of 4 groups of 36 questions, and the collected data were assessed using the STATA 12 software. The value of the ‘p’ result is considered statistically significant when it is lower than 0.05. Results: The average age of total survey patients was 37.7 (±13.6), of which 60.8% (n=113) are females, 66.6% (n=124) had a university degree and 33.4% (n=62) had a lower than secondary education.(p=0.028), 58.1% (n= 08) of respondents had lower income than the average household income (MNT 848,800) set by the National Statistical OfÏce in 2017. When respondents were assessed by Moritsky scale, 13.4% (n=25) was good, 54.3% (n=101) was medium, 32.3% (n=60) was not satisfactory. (p<0.0001). 16.7% (n=31) had no risk of cardiovascular disease. 16.7% (n=31) had no risk of cardiovascular disease. Conclusion: The medication adherence of arterial hypertensions patients is not satisfactory. A very small percentage (16.7%) of patients treated with arterial hypertension were not at risk. There is an urgent need to improve the sustainable use of drugs for arterial hypertension within the Family Health Center.