Assessing Barriers to and Level of Adherence to Hypertension Therapy among Palestinians Living in the Gaza Strip: A Chance for Policy Innovation

Table 6

Impact of demographic variables on compliance.

	Mean	SD	value
Sex
Males	24.94	6.37	0.899
Females	24.87	6.0
Age			0.0001
≤30	30.49	10.35
31–40 years	27.56	7.49
41–50 years	26.10	6.59
51–60 years	25.25	5.94
61–70 years	23.48	5.30
>70 years	23.71	5.50
Level of education
None	25.00	6.05	0.229
Primary	25.67	6.91
Preparatory	25.16	5.50
High school	24.98	6.46
Diploma	24.24	6.40
Bachelor	23.66	5.32
Postgraduate studies	27.29	5.09
Marital status (N = 642)			0.996
Married	24.89	6.22
Single	24.89	6.73
Widow	24.91	5.76
Divorced	25.26	5.87
Smoking			0.019
Yes	27.46	7.91
No	24.82	5.91
Exercise			0.452
Yes	25.03	6.01
No	24.64	6.39
Presence of comorbidity			0.092
Yes	24.87	6.07
No	24.96	6.31
Number of antihypertensive medications			0.695
One	25.09	5.94
Two	24.70	6.75
Three	25.92	4.62