Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors of suboptimal
medication adherence in patients with hypertension. This study employs the concept
of self-efficacy and other-efficacy in a tripartite efficacy model to examine the factors
for relationship quality, analyze the association between relationship quality, patient
participation and medication adherence, and validate the mediating effect of relationship
quality and patient participation.
Methods: This cross-sectional study collected 220 valid questionnaires from outpatients
with hypertension of the cardiovascular department at a medical center in southern
Taiwan. The data was analyzed using the partial least squares method.
Results: Empirical results confirmed that other-efficacy affect relationship quality,
relationship quality affects patient participation, and patient participation affects
medication adherence. In addition, relationship quality showed partial mediating effects
between other-efficacy and patient participation, whereas patient participation showed
partial mediating effects between relationship quality and medication adherence.
Conclusions: We recommend that physicians draft medication adherence strategies
that increase other-efficacy in medical professionals. These measures may improve
relationship quality between physicians and patients, and participation behavior in
patients.