Sudewi Mukaromah Khoirunnisa, Atika Dalili Akhmad
The high prevalence of hypertension in Indonesia encourages studies related to how the quality of life of patients with hypertension. The purpose of this study was to measure the quality of life, identify, and explain factors related to the quality of life of patients with hypertension. The study design was an associative descriptive design using a cross-sectional study approach. The study subjects were all outpatient hypertensive patients from several health centers in Bandar Lampung. The instrument used in this study was the Indonesian SF-36. The data collected included the patient demographic characteristics, including gender, age, education, occupation, and marital status, and the fields related to the medical history of the study subjects, including the duration of hypertension, complications, and the number of antihypertensive drugs consumed. Data were analyzed using the bivariate analysis to see the association between two use of them. Multivariate analysis was conducted to study the association of several independent variables with one or several dependent variables. The results of the univariate analysis showed that age, marital status, duration of illness, complications, and the number of drugs consumed affected the quality of life of hypertensive patients (p<0.05). The results of multivariate analysis showed that the factors of age, marital status, and duration of hypertension were factors that influenced the physical domain. In contrast, whereas gender, marital status, duration of hypertension, complications, and the number of drugs were influential factors in the mental domain. Copyright © 2019 THE AUTHOR(S). This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Department of Pharmacy, Institut Teknologi Sumatera, Jl. Terusan Ryacudu, Way Huwi, Jati Agung, Lampung Selatan, Lampung, 35365, Indonesia
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