OBJECTIVES:

This study determines patient knowledge about hypertension, patient Quality of life and Acceptance of illness. This is a comparison study between two groups of hypertensive patients i.e. with and without co morbidities.

METHODS:

A crossectional study design was used and data was collected with a validated questionnaire. The questionnaire based study involved 240 adult hypertensive patients with mean age 44.44 ±10.92 years

RESULTS:

Knowledge of disease, Quality of life and Acceptance of illness were found to be better in patients who were without a concurrent disease. Assessing quality of life, 75% of patients without co-morbidities had no problem in mobility, 66.3 % had moderate problem in self-care with concurrent disease in comparison to group without co-morbidities where 92.5 % patients had no problem in self-care. Out of them, 16 patients with concurrent disease had EQ-5D index vales with negative sign in contrast to other group where no patient was found with a negative sign. No patient with concurrent disease group had score 1 while 26 patients in other group were found having scored 1. QoL score, 26 patients had 5 score in patients without concurrent disease, while no patient was found to have 5 score in the other group. With concurrent disease 92.7% patients had poor AOI while 3.1% patients had complete AOI. No patient score of full 40 in this group. In the other group 81.6% patients had poor AOI score while 7.6 % had complete AOI. Three patients out of total respondents in this group had score 40.

CONCLUSIONS:

Patient’s inability, dependence and feeling of being a burden increases with increased number of years of disease and leads to non compliance and non adherence and puts a high economic cost on overall disease burden on the health economy of the country.