Spiritual and religious beliefs: do they matter in the medication adherence behaviour of hypertensive patients?

Conclusion: Our study suggests that while spirituality/ religiosity was dominant among hypertensive patients, these spiritual attachments of patients with a supreme being potentially increased their trust in the expectation of divine healing instead of adhering adequately with their anti-hypertensive medications.
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research