Reasons for non-compliance to office visits | No. (%) (no. = 649) |
---|---|
Patient was measuring his/her BP elsewhere | 444 (68.4) |
- Pharmacy | 239 (36.8) |
- MOH hospitals | 78 (12.0) |
- Insurance hospitals | 6 (0.9) |
- Private doctor | 62 (9.6) |
- Home device | 66 (10.2) |
*Healthcare related factors | |
- Healthcare service unsatisfactory | 53 (8.2) |
- No one called the patient to come for follow up | 5 (0.7) |
- Patient referred to clinic for other reasons | 31 (4.8) |
- Patient is not taking medications from the clinic | 24 (3.7) |
*Patient’s related factors | |
1. Patient’s awareness | |
- Patient thought that HTN is not a serious disease | 0 (0) |
- Patient is asymptomatic | 94 (14.5) |
2. Socio-economic factors | |
- Clinic was far from home | 110 (16.9) |
- Financial reasons | 24 (3.7) |
- Depression | 4 (0.6) |
- Patient disability and inability to move easily | 22 (3.4) |
3. Perceived effectiveness of treatment | |
- Patient is convinced that anti HTN treatment will work with no need to follow up | 16 (2.5) |
4. Patients follow up HTN while following up other co morbidities | 35 (5.4) |
5. Inconvenient time of the clinic | 49 (7.6) |
Others | |
- Patient BP is controlled | 71 (10.9) |
- Patient was found to be normotensive | 31 (4.8) |
- BP elevation was situational | 28 (4.3) |
- Other causes | 180 (27.7) |