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• TITLE: How hypertensive patients in the rural areas use home blood pressure monitoring and its relationship with medication adherence: A primary care survey in China

  AUTHORS: Huanhuan Hu, Gang Li, Takashi Arao

  KEYWORDS: Hypertension; Home Blood Pressure Monitoring; Medication Adherence

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol.3 No.9, December 3, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Despite an increasing popularity of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) over the last few decades, little is known about HBPM use among hypertensive patients in the rural areas. A cross-sectional survey including 318 hypertensive patients was conducted in a rural community in Beijing, China, in 2012. Participants were mainly recruited from a community health clinic and completed the questionnaires assessing HBPM usage. Binary logistic regression models were used for the analysis of medication adherence with age, gender, level of education marital status, perceived health status, duration of hypertension, HBPM use, and frequency of performing BP measurement. Among the total population, 78 (24.5%) reported currently use of HBPM. Only 5.1% of the HBPM users cited doctor’s advice as the reason for using HBPM. Analysis of the risk factors of poor medication adherence by multivariable modeling indicated significant associations between the duration of hypertension (adjusted OR, 3.31; 95% CI, 1.91-5.72; P 01), frequency of performing BP measurements (adjusted OR, 2.33; 95% CI, 1.42-3.83; P