Treatment adherence as a mediator of blood pressure control in Chinese older adults with depression
Autor: | Shulin Chen, Hillary R. Bogner, Tingfei Zhu, Jiang Xue, Yeates Conwell, Yue Li, Wan Tang, Yuxing Jiang |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Rural Population China Mediation (statistics) Population ageing medicine.medical_specialty Treatment adherence Blood Pressure Comorbidity Logistic regression Article law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Asian People Randomized controlled trial Rating scale law Internal medicine Prevalence Humans Medicine cardiovascular diseases Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Aged 80 and over 030214 geriatrics Depression business.industry Blood Pressure Determination Psychiatry and Mental health Logistic Models Blood pressure Hypertension Patient Compliance Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 34:432-438 |
ISSN: | 1099-1166 0885-6230 |
Popis: | OBJECTIVES Both depression and hypertension (HTN) are prevalent, costly, and destructive, and frequently coexist among the aging population of China. This study aimed to examine the role that treatment adherence plays in blood pressure control in older adult Chinese with depression. METHODS Data for these analyses were taken from a randomized control trial of a collaborative depression care management intervention conducted in rural villages of Zhejiang Province, China with older adults who had comorbid depression and HTN. They included baseline assessments of 2362 subjects ages ≥60 years, whose blood pressure and depression were measured using a calibrated manual sphygmomanometer and the Chinese version of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS-17), respectively. Treatment adherence was identified by a single question asking whether patients on occasion did not take their medicine. RESULTS Uncontrolled HTN was associated with older age (t = 3.10, P |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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