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Do symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress affect anti-hypertensive medication adherence in hypertensive patients?
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.
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Supports assessing negative emotions in non-adherent hypertensive patients; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized trials to confirm impact on 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.
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Kretchy et al. (2014) studied this question.
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