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- Title
Assessment Of Adherence To Medication In Patients With Type II Diabetes Mellitus.
- Authors
Hasan, Arshad; Sharma, Vinay
- Abstract
Background: Adherence is the extent to which individuals follow the instructions they are given for prescribed treatments. The present study was conducted to assess the adherence level of patients with type II DM. Materials & Methods: The present study was conducted on 148 patients which included 88 males and 60 females. All underwent fasting and random blood glucose level examination. All were provided with Morisky 8-item medication questionnaire which included information related to adherence to medication. It was recorded as low, medium and high. Awareness about disease and reasons were evaluated. Results: 120 males were aware of medicines taken, 90 aware about dose and route of medicine, 102 were aware about frequency of administration, 84 were aware about precautions to be taken while taking medicines, 72 were aware that not taking medication would affect in any way, 30 stopped taking any medicines prescribed by doctor and 45 stopped any medicine due to adverse effects. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). Adherence level was high (5%), medium (30%) and low (65%). The difference was significant (P< 0.05). Reasons for non adherence was forgetness (23%), high cost (18%), not aware of need (31%) and little perception (28%). The difference was non- significant (P> 0.05). Conclusion: Patients with type II DM are usually on multiple medications. We found 65% showed low adherence level. The most common reason was not aware about the need.
- Subjects
TYPE 2 diabetes; PATIENT compliance; DRUG utilization; AWARENESS; PATIENT education
- Publication
International Journal of Community Health & Medical Research, 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4, p74
- ISSN
2581-5040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21276/ijchmr