23. Praveen et al. 2010 [30] | India | To determine factors that are associated with non-adherence to antihypertensive treatment | N = 804 All eligible hypertensive patient from the outpatients of General Medicine department of a tertiary care hospital | 70% | Cross-sectional | 29/34.5 | Factors independently associated with MNA (p < 0.05): female sex (OR = 2.95, 95% CI: 1.39 - 6.24), not understand drug regimen well (OR = 4.06, 95% CI: 1.01 - 16.32), affordability to only some/none of prescribed drugs (OR = 3.70, 95% CI: 1.8 - 7.59) and longer time since last visit to a health care facility (OR = 7.26; 95% CI: 2.65 - 19.86) |
24. Kusuma, Y. S. 2010 [58] | India | To gain insights into the perceptions of socio-economically disadvantaged migrants in Delhi regarding treatment seeking behaviour for hypertension | N = 14 key informants and 3 focus groups. Purposive sampling from a community | - | Qualitative | - | Treatment seeking for hypertension was not adequate. Several patient- and provider-related issues have emerged as barriers in treatment seeking and adherence. |
25. Kamran et al. 2014 [50] | Iran | To determine the factors of adherence to hypertension medication based on HBM | N = 671 Two stage random sampling methods to select eligible hypertensive patients from rural health care centres | 74.81 | Cross-sectional | 76/75.3 | MNA was significantly associated with: unrestricted meal habits (OR = 4.8; 95% CI: 37.5), smoking (OR = 1.9; 95% CI: 1.3 - 2.9) and salt intake > 5 g (OR = 19.7; 95% CI: 12.2 - 31.7). Respondents with regular physical activity and non-smokers were more adherent to medication when compared to respondents with sedentary lifestyle and smoking (p < 0.01). |