Do symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress affect anti-hypertensive medication adherence in hypertensive patients?
Clinicians should address negative emotions, potentially through spirituality, to improve anti-hypertensive medication adherence.
The study has demonstrated the need for clinicians to pay attention to negative emotions and their role in medication non-adherence. The recommendation is that attention should be directed toward the use of spirituality as a possible mechanism by which negative emotions could be managed among hypertensive patients.
Kretchy et al. (Sat,) studied this question.