Research Article
Assessing Barriers to and Level of Adherence to Hypertension Therapy among Palestinians Living in the Gaza Strip: A Chance for Policy Innovation
Table 4
Hill-Bone Compliance to High Blood Pressure Therapy Scale responses.
| | Question: How often do you | Response rate (frequency/%) | Mean (SD) | | None of the time | Some of the time | Most of the time | All of the time |
| | (1) Forget to take your HBP medicine? | 443 (68.5) | 132 (20.4) | 53 (8.2) | 19 (2.9) | 1.46 (0.77) | | (2) Decide not to take your HBP medicine? | 501 (77.7) | 102 (15.8) | 26 (4.0) | 16 (2.5) | 1.31 (0.67) | | (3) Eat salty food? | 232 (36.1) | 208 (32.4) | 117 (18.2) | 85 (13.2) | 2.09 (1.03) | | (4) Shake salt on your food before you eat it? | 169 (26.3) | 225 (35.0) | 146 (22.7) | 103 (16.0) | 2.28 (1.03) | | (5) Eat extra salty foods such as pickles and salty grounded red pepper? | 213 (33.2) | 271 (42.2) | 83 (12.9) | 75 (11.7) | 2.03 (0.96) | | (6) Eat fast food? (fat cook, chips, burgers) | 177 (27.4) | 302 (46.7) | 114 (17.6) | 53 (8.2) | 2.07 (0.88) | | (7) Get the next appointment before you leave the clinic? | 371 (57.6) | 77 (12.0) | 102 (15.8) | 94 (14.6) | 1.87 (1.14) | | (8) Miss scheduled appointments? | 378 (58.7) | 136 (21.1) | 54 (8.4) | 76 (11.8) | 1.73 (1.04) | | (9) Leave the dispensary without obtaining your prescribed pills? (due to long line, closure of clinic, forgot) | 394 (61.5) | 166 (25.9) | 45 (7.0) | 36 (5.6) | 1.57 (0.85) | | (10) Run out of blood pressure pills? | 282 (43.8) | 218 (33.9) | 78 (12.1) | 6 (10.2) | 1.89 (0.98) | | (11) Skip your blood pressure medicine 1–3 days before you go to the clinic? | 489 (75.9) | 106 (16.5) | 35 (5.4) | 14 (2.2) | 1.34 (0.68) | | (12) Miss taking your blood pressure pills when you feel better? | 495 (77.0) | 85 (13.2) | 32 (5.0) | 31 (4.8) | 1.38 (0.79) | | (13) Miss taking your blood pressure pills when you feel sick? | 497 (77.3) | 118 (18.4) | 13 (2.0) | 15 (2.3) | 1.29 (0.62) | | (14) Take someone else’s blood pressure pills? | 578 (89.6) | 40 (6.2) | 20 (3.1) | 7 (1.1) | 1.16 (0.51) | | (15) Miss taking your blood pressure pills when you care less? | 457 (70.7) | 121 (18.7) | 45 (7.0) | 23 (3.6) | 1.43 (0.77) |
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