Objective
To analyze the prevalence and factors associated with the cooperation of arterial hypertension patients in primary health care.
Methods
Cross-sectional study that included 458 hypertensive patients, randomly selected among primary care users. The study variables were socioeconomic, demographic and clinical and the research instruments used were validated. The logistic regression model was used for multivariate statistical analysis.
Results
The prevalence rates found for patient cooperation corresponded to 26.6%, 16.6% and 85.6% on the Morisky-Green, Batalla and Haynes-Sackett tests, respectively. The adjusted logistic regression analysis showed economic class and smoking as the independent predictors of hypertensive patients’ cooperation.
Conclusion
The prevalence of treatment adherence varied according to the assessment instrument used. The factors associated with treatment adherence were: high socioeconomic class, living with a partner and being eutrophic.
Public health nursing; Hypertension; Education, nursing; Patient compliance; Patient acceptance of health care