Personality Traits, Clinical Characteristics, and Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients with Hypertension in a Primary Hospital in Ghana

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:12.55em"/><col style="width:35.78em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Assessment area</td><td class="align_left">Assessment tool</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Sociodemographics</td><td class="align_left">Age, sex, marital status, education, employment status, and estimated monthly income</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Clinical factors</td><td class="align_left">Period since diagnosed, presence of comorbidities, and number of medications taken</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Medication adherence using Medication Adherence Questionnaire</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Personality trait</td><td class="align_left">Ten Item Personality Inventory</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Health-related quality of life</td><td class="align_left">WHO Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) scale</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

International Journal of Hypertension

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Table 1: Personality Traits, Clinical Characteristics, and Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients with Hypertension in a Primary Hospital in Ghana 

Table 1 | Personality Traits, Clinical Characteristics, and Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients with Hypertension in a Primary Hospital in Ghana 