The Relationship Between Spiritual Wellbeing With Medication Adherence in Hypertensive Patients Referred to Selected Heart Clinics of Iran University of Medical Sciences, 2020

Epidemiological changes over time have made chronic diseases increasingly important. Hypertension is also known as a chronic disease. The high prevalence of hypertension worldwide has made the disease a major health problem in communities. Spiritual health has been proposed as one of the health indicators and also as one of the predictors of self-care in chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between spiritual health and adherence to treatment regimen in patients with hypertension.

In this descriptive correlational study, 121 patients with hypertension were selected by continuous sampling method from cardiac clinics affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected through demographic information form and validated spiritual health questionnaires Ellison, Paloutzian (1982) and Hil-Bone (2000) diet adherence. For data analysis, SPSS software version 16 and statistical tests of Spearman, independent t-test, Chi-square and analysis of variance were used.

The results of this study show that there is a negative and significant relationship between spiritual health and adherence to treatment regimen in patients with hypertension (p = 0.001 and r = -0.05).

As spiritual health increases, adherence to the treatment regimen in patients with hypertension decreases. Having spiritual health for this group of patient’s leads to less adherence to the treatment regimen.