Attrition and associated factors among patients on chronic antihypertensive therapy at Mulago hospital, Uganda: A mixed method study

• Nathan Ntenkaire ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michealnathans@gmail.com

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5824-1072

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• Mark Kaddu Mukasa,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Patience Muwanguzi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Brian Mikka,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Sandra Lunkuse,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, The Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, and LSHTM research unit, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Julius Mubiru ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julius Mubiru, Maxwell Okwero, Douglas Bulafu

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2539-216X

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• Maxwell Okwero ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julius Mubiru, Maxwell Okwero, Douglas Bulafu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Beatrice Basuuta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Douglas Bulafu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julius Mubiru, Maxwell Okwero, Douglas Bulafu

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5362-7577

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• Joan N. Kalyango

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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