Patterns of Drug Use and Adherence in the Management of Hypertension in a Health Care Facility in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria

Hypertension is one of the treatable causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Management and evaluation of hypertension helps to streamline treatment protocols in hospitals that conform to global practice standards. Critical to hypertension management is adherence and lack of knowledge to adhering to prescribed medications may constitute treatment failure. To determine the patterns and adherence level of antihypertensives and impacting factors to non-adherence.The case files of adult hypertensive patients of the Central hospital Warri that were surveyed for a period of six months was 400 for drug use pattern. Reasons for non-adherence was also gathered. The 8-item Morisky questionnaire was used to gather information on adherence. Females affected was 69.8% with mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 153.3mmHg±16.7 and males 30.2% with mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 155.3mmHg±17.3% and mean diastolic blood pressure (DBP) for females (91.8mmHg±10.7) and males (92.0mmHg±...