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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl) J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168 Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32nd EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Effect of social support on the adherence of patients with hypertension to treatment
Gulcan Bahçecioglu Turan , Bahar Çiftçi and Meyreme Aksoy
Ataturk University, Turkey
Objective : This descriptive study was conducted to determine the effect of social support on drug treatment compliance in
patients with hypertension.
Method: The study population consisted of patients admitted to the cardiology clinic of a university hospital in Turkey between
January and June 2017. The sample consisted of patients diagnosed with hypertension at least a year ago at these dates, started
treatment, agreed to participate in the study, had no advanced chronic renal failure, heart failure and any communication
problems and who are over the age of 18. Data were collected by 'Patient Information Form', 'Compliance/Adherence to Drug
Treatment Self-Efficacy Scale', 'Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale' and face-to-face interviews by the researcher
with the patients who agreed to participate in the research after describing the purpose of the research. Data were analyzed
using the SPSS packet program, the descriptive statistics, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentile and
Kendall's tau B correlation analysis.
Results: It was determined that 48.3% of the patients participating in the study was in the 61-75 age group, 58.7% was female,
91.9% was married, 66.4% was living in the city and 38.2% was primary school graduate. It was also found that 71% of the
patients had at least one patient with hypertension in the family, 79.2% was using at least one blood pressure medication, 61%
was adhered to his/her diet and 72.2% was adhered to the disease. In Kendall's tau_B correlation analysis, carried out to assess
the effect of social support on the compliance of patients with hypertension to drug treatment, a positive correlation of 0.257
was found.
Conclusion: The compliance to drug treatment was found to increase positively as the social support of patients with
hypertension increases.
Biography
Young researcher Meyreme Aksoy I was born in 1984 Batman. I graduated from nursing in 2006. İn 2015. Atatürk University Faculty of health sciences, fundamental
of nursing, I finished the master's degree in nursing . Now Atatürk University faculty of nursing, Department of fundamental of nursing, PhD student and research
assistant.
Gulcan Bahçecioglu Turan et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061