[Compliance studies: factor analysis study on non-compliance].

Abstract

The repeatedly described influence variables of the compliance of hypertensive patients were assessed in 195 patients and 101 medical doctors using a questionnaire. Subsequent factor analysis showed five essential influence criteria for non-compliance: "drug dilemma" (reduced drug-compliance through confounding of patients), "ignored independence and impeded patient responsibility" (as cause of insufficient information and organisation), "hypochondriac belief in medicine" (readiness to undergo treatment without active contribution towards improvement of disease, particularly in assumed increased proneness to disease), "prescription-happy mentality" (exaggerated trust in drugs of doctors), and "cognitive and emotional excess demands" (insufficient understandability and retainability of advice, too many recommendations at once.