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- Title
Adherence to the treatment with oral antidiabetic medications in primary health care.
- Authors
Pereira da Silva, Andréa; de Sousa Borges, Braulio Vieira; Garcia Lira Neto, José Cláudio; Silva Dantas Avelino, Fernanda Valéria; Coelho Damasceno, Marta Maria; Júnior Freire de Freitas, Roberto Wagner
- Abstract
Objective: to assess the level of adherence to the drug treatment with oral antidiabetic medications in the primary health care network. Methods: analytical, quantitative study conducted with 63 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 attended in three Basic Health Units. One used a form which included sociodemographic and clinical information related to treatment adherence, assessed through the Morisky-Green test. Results: it was found that 22.2% of the patients adhered to the treatment. There were no statistically significant correlations between adherence and sociodemographic and clinical variables. Conclusion: non-adherence was high, requiring intervention measures to correct the problem and to promote a better quality of life for patients with diabetes mellitus type 2.
- Subjects
HYPOGLYCEMIC agents; DIABETES; PATIENT compliance; PRIMARY health care; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Rev Rene, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 3, p425
- ISSN
1517-3852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15253/2175-6783.2015000300016