Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life among Female Hypertensive Patients Attending Primary Health Care Centers in AL-Madinah, Saudi Arabia 2018

Abstract Introduction Hypertension is associated with high morbidity that affects the quality of life ranging from complication from the disease itself or its treatment. The high burden of the disease imposed a load on health care professional to identify risk factors associated with patients’ low quality of life and addresses them through different awareness campaigns. Objective This study was set out to assess the quality of life among elderly hypertensive Saudi female patients. And also to assess the risk factors for low quality of life. Methods A cross sectional study was conducted on patients from primary healthcare centers in Al-Madinah Al-Munawra. The study included female patients aged more than 18 years old and excluded any patients with disease caused hypertension e.g. malignancy or pregnancy. WHO-QOLBREF was used to assess the quality of life among the studied group. Results The study included 402 patients with average age of 52.49±. The patients had moderately high quality of life and achieved high median scores in the four domains. The highest scores were achieved in the social domain while the lowest scores were achieved in physical domains. We found that old age, diabetics, patients with kidney and heart dis-eases, and non-compliant patients had significantly lower scores in all domains. Multivariate regression analysis found that each domain had its associated risk factors for low scores Conclusion Elderly female hypertensive patients in Saudi Arabia have moderately high scores in all domains of WHOQOL-BREF. Compliance to treatment and treatment of associated comorbidities were associated with better scores throughout all domains