[PDF] The influence of the pandemic on fear of contagion, blood pressure management and adherence to medication in hypertensive older adults in Turkey | Semantic Scholar (2024)

It should be remembered that infectious diseases such as COVID-19 can reoccur and that it is necessary to be prepared for new contagious diseases likely to occur and to conduct interventional/experimental studies on how to increase medication adherence of patients and how to reduce CO VID-19 anxiety.

Few of those requiring regular treatment reported changes in healthcare utilization during the second wave of the pandemic, suggesting continuity of care for females and chronic diseases besides hypertension must be emphasized.

Adherence to ESC hypertension guideline proposed target blood pressure was relatively low among hypertensive subjects even though a significant number of patients were taking fixed-dose combinations, and survey data suggest that therapeutic drug monitoring using the validated simple, sensitive LC-MS/MS method is pivotal for further understanding factors influencing adherence.

The risk factors for lack of awareness or treatment of HT were male gender, young age, rural residency, lower education, being employed, sedentary lifestyle, and less physical activity for women, unhealthy dietary habits for men, and modifiable risk factors, including smoking and drinking for men.

Prevalence among adults is high, with unacceptably low levels of awareness, treatment and control and the results reveal that men are less aware of their hypertension status hence special attention should focus on this group.

The results highlight the importance of cultivating positive beliefs that hypertension is amenable to control by treatment, and the adherence behavior of those of younger individuals and living with family should be closely monitored.

The results indicated that the Turkish version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale had strong psychometric properties and will allow mental health professionals to do research on the psychological impacts of CO VID-19 in Turkey.

The preliminary criterion validity is adequate and the MASES-SF can be used confidently in determining and testing interventions to improve medication adherence self-efficacy perceptions and behaviors in hypertensive Turkish patients.

Among US adults with self-reported hypertension, those without cost-related medication nonadherence were more likely to report current antihypertensive medication use and normal blood pressure within the past 12 months.

The findings suggest substantial room for improvement in hypertension diagnosis and treatment and suggest low education was associated with lower rates of awareness, treatment, and control in LICs, but not in other countries.

...

...