Table 2. Responses to the Hill-Bone compliance to high blood pressure therapy scale.
| ITEMS | Blood pressure <140/90mmHg | Blood pressure >140/90mmHg |
P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None of the time | Some of the time | Most of the time | All of the time | None of the time | Some of the time | Most of the time | All of the time | ||
| 1. Patients forget to take their hypertension medicine | 878 (72.4) | 239 (19.7) | 21 (1.7) | 24 (2.0) | 1201 (72.5) | 314 (18.9) | 52 (3.1) | 45 (2.7) | 0.07 |
| 2. Patients decide not to take their hypertension medicine | 940 (77.5) | 180 (14.8) | 24 (2.0) | 18 (1.4) | 1257 (75.9) | 265 (16.0) | 41 (2.5) | 50 (3.0) | 0.04 |
| 3. Patients eat salty food | 569 (46.9) | 354 (29.2) | 98 (8.1) | 143 (11.8) | 825 (49.8) | 458 (27.6) | 141 (8.5) | 193 (11.6) | 0.62 |
| 4. Patients add salt to their food before they ate it | 973 (80.2) | 132 (10.9) | 37 (3.1) | 22 (1.8) | 1348 (81.4) | 191 (11.5) | 57 (3.4) | 22 (1.3) | 0.67 |
| 5. Patients eat fast food (food purchased for take-out) | 687 (56.6) | 408 (33.6) | 54 (4.5) | 15 (1.2) | 964 (58.2) | 532 (32.1) | 92 (5.5) | 27 (1.7) | 0.39 |
| 6. Clinic make scheduled return appointments before patients left the doctor’s office | 49 (4.0) | 37 (3.5) | 50 (4.1) | 1026 (84.6) | 70 (4.2) | 60 (3.6) | 50 (3.1) | 1432 (86.4) | 0.35 |
| 7. Patients miss scheduled clinic appointments | 936 (77.2) | 179 (14.8) | 20 (1.6) | 26 (2.1) | 1227 (74.0) | 299 (18.0) | 48 (2.9) | 39 (2.4) | 0.02 |
| 8. Patients forget to get prescriptions filled | 1040 (85.7) | 93 (7.7) | 9 (0.7) | 20 (1.6) | 1380 (83.3) | 170 (10.3) | 17 (1.0) | 46 (2.8) | 0.02 |
| 9. Patients run out of High Blood Pressure pills | 945 (77.9) | 195 (16.1) | 14 (1.2) | 8 (0.7) | 1252 (75.6) | 305 (18.4) | 38 (2.3) | 18 (1.1) | 0.03 |
| 10. Patients skip their High Blood Pressure medicine before going to the doctor | 781 (64.4) | 175 (14.4) | 27 (2.2) | 179 (14.8) | 1009 (60.9) | 280 (16.9) | 66 (4.0) | 258 (15.6) | 0.01 |
| 11. Patients miss taking their High Blood Pressure pills when they felt better | 1079 (89.0) | 70 (5.7) | 8 (0.7) | 5 (0.4) | 1451 (87.6) | 119 (7.2) | 28 (1.7) | 15 (0.9) | 0.01 |
| 12. Patients missed taking their High Blood Pressure pills when they felt sick | 1076 (88.7) | 62 (5.1) | 12 (1.0) | 4 (0.3) | 1469 (88.7) | 84 (5.1) | 30 (1.8) | 12 (0.7) | 0.16 |
| 13. Patients took someone else’s High Blood Pressure pills | 1134 (93.5) | 27 (2.2) | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1569 (94.6) | 39 (2.4) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.0) | 0.70 |
| 14. Patients missed taking their high Blood Pressure pills when there were careless | 1074 (88.5) | 81 (6.7) | 4 (0.3) | 2 (0.2) | 1437 (86.7) | 141 (8.5) | 24 (1.4) | 10 (0.6) | 0.002 |