8. Hareri et al. 2014 [36] | Ethiopia | To assess the prevalence of poor adherence and factors associated to anti-hypertensive treatment | N = 365 Systematic random sampling technique to select hypertensive patients from a specialized hospital | 51.2 | Cross-sectional | 40.5 | Factors hinder adherence: age group (46 - 55) (AOR = 0.30; 95% CI: 0.142 - 0.640), lack of medication information (AOR = 0.12; 95% CI: 0.258 - 0.583) and presence of co-morbidities (AOR = 0.50; 95% CI: 0.290 - 0.893). Muslim followers were 3 times more likely to be adherent to their treatment (AOR = 3.20; 95% CI:1.69 - 6.08) |
9. Ali et al. 2014 [46] | Ethiopia | To investigate antihypertensive medication non-adherence and its determinants among patients | N = 121 All eligible hypertensive patients from outpatients of two referral hospitals | 62 | Prospective cross-sectional | 26.4 | Factors significantly associated with MNA: family support (AOR = 0.170; 95% CI: 0.030 - 0.905); spot blood pressure (AOR = 0.052, 95% CI: 0.003 - 0.242), place of patient residence (AOR = 0.184; 5% CI: 0.024 - 0.597) and hypertension related complications (AOR = 21.73; 95% CI: 1.568 - 418.42) |
10. Gelaw et al. 2013 [35] | Ethiopia | To assess the adherence of the patients to anti-hypertensive medication and main risk factors contributing to MNA | N = 91 Purposive sampling was conducted among eligible hypertensive patients who attended a referral Hospital during the study period | 56.06 | Cross-sectional | 68.13 | Factors contributed to MNA significantly: economic problems (p = 0.04), less awareness about hypertension and its treatment (p < 0.01), social drug use (p < 0.01). Other factors were distance, forget fullness, insufficient information about the effect of MNA and adverse effect understanding |