Evaluation of Psychological Distress, Self-Care, and Medication Adherence in Association with Hypertension Control

Table 4

Comparison of the scores of drug adherence, psychological distress, and self-care with age, sex, years of education, and regular daily physical activity. A value < 0.05 was considered significant.

Personal and clinical characteristics		Drug adherence	value	R	Psychological distress	value	R	Self-care	value	R
Sex	Female	55.55 ± 2.57	0.192	—	3.35 ± 2.05	0.049	—	64.05 ± 8.16	0.017	—
	Male	5.11 ± 2.70			2.82 ± 2.20			66.50 ± 7.87
Age (years)		—	≤0.01	+0.217	—	0.651	−0.029	—	0.335	+0.061
Years of education		—	0.193	-0.082	—	0.026	−0.140	—	0.122	+0.098
Physical activity (3–5 times/week)	Yes	5.74 ± 2.53	≤0.01	—	3.11 ± 2.07	1.00	—	67.05 ± 7.15	0.008	—
	No	4.86 ± 2.69			3.11 ± 2.21			62.83 ± 8.62