Adherence to the treatment of patients with hypertension and quality of life

This study of patients with essential hypertension, treatment compliance, and identifying factors that affect the quality of life is a descriptive study to examine the relationship between them.Our investigation, Firat University Hospital, Cardiology Department between 01.09.2010-30.03.2011 and outpatients with a diagnosis of essential hypertension for at least three months, non-cognitive functions affect disease, 18 years and 220 patients participated voluntarily.After the data description required by the investigator and the patient records of the method of examining the collected face to face. The literature examining the question prepared by the researcher gathering data form, the SF-36 Quality of Life Scale and the Drug-Fidelity/Adaptation of Self-Efficacy Scale were collected using. To assess the data, using SPSS for Windows 15 (Statistical Package of Social Sciences for Windows) package program, percentage, mean, standard deviation, the Independent-Samples T, Man-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis Variance, Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis and Cronbach's ? used. Identifying the patients, lifestyle changes, compliance with the relevant properties for the treatment of disease and quality of life and treatment compliance scale was found to affect the scores statistically.Quality of life, age, marital status, education, occupation, income level, number of antihypertensive drugs, hypertension, control Remodeling, hypertension, to study, eat less caring less frequently, to avoid heavy greasy foods, physical activity, salt, fruit and vegetable consumption, and coffee was influenced by factors such as.In compliance to treatment, gender, marital status, education, income level, to study hypertension, hypertension control Remodeling, caring little to eat less frequently, to avoid heavy greasy foods, physical activity, salt, fruit and vegetable consumption, smoking and coffee was influenced by factors such as.The scale adherence rate was significantly and positively with the quality of life is a strong correlation between areas that have been identified.Key Words: Hypertension, treatment adherence, quality of life.