CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE COMPLIANCE, OBJECTIVE COMPLIANCE, ANDFACTORS DETERMINING COMPLIANCE IN GERIATRIC HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS TREATED WITH TRIAMTERENE AND HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE

There are correlations between objective and subjective compliances on the one hand and factors determining compliance (3 times drug intake per day, no support by the family to get over the disease and no nicot ine abuse). In agreement with the literature, mainly subjective criter ia (due to disease, therapy. doctor, and environment) influence compli ance strongly. To realize their personal psychological task to help th e patients even better it is of importance for the doctors to analyze the variability of these parameters. Measures to improve compliance, s uch as better psychological guidance for the patient taking these fact ors and the patient's personality into consideration, can be helpful t o improve the relatively poor compliance reported in the literature to be as little as 20 - 50%.