• School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China;
CHAOJian-qian, Email: chaoseu@163.com
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Objective To systematically review the influence of health education on medicine-taking compliance of hypertensive patients, so as to provide scientific evidence for health decision-making. Methods Literature search was performed in CBM, CNKI, WanFang Data and VIP databases to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published between 1998 and 2013 concerning the effect of health education on medicine-taking compliance of hypertensive patients. Two reviewers independently screened the literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted the data, assessed the methodological quality of included studies, and then conducted Bayesian meta-analysis using WinBUGS 14 software after heterogeneity-test by using Stata 10.0 software. Results A total of 19 RCTs involving 3 751 participants were included. The results of Bayesian meta-analysis showed that the health education group was superior to the control group in medicine-taking compliance with a significant difference (OR=4.46, 95%CI 3.698 to 5.358). Conclusion Health education could enhance the medicine-taking compliance of Chinese hypertension patients significantly.

Citation: LIYun-yun, CHAOJian-qian, SONGLong, ZONGMeng-meng. Influence of Health Education on Medicine-Taking Compliance of Chinese Hypertensive Patients: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2014, 14(2): 211-215. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140037 Copy

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