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. 2021 Feb 26:15:475-481.
doi: 10.2147/PPA.S295012. eCollection 2021.

The Impact of Treatment Adherence on Quality of Life Among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients - Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study

Abdul Majeed  1 , Muhammad Rehman  1 , Iltaf Hussain  1 , Imran Imran  2 , Muhammad Usman Saleem  3 , Hamid Saeed  4 , Furqan K Hashmi  4 , Muqarrab Akbar  5 , Muhammad Asad Abrar  1 , Basit Ramzan  6 , Muhammad Omer Chaudhry  7 , Muhammad Islam  4 , Naveed Nisar  8 , Muhammad Fawad Rasool  1
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The Impact of Treatment Adherence on Quality of Life Among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients - Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study

Abdul Majeed et al. Patient Prefer Adherence. .

Abstract

Aim: The current study was conducted to assess the factors contributing to treatment adherence and its impact on the quality of life (QoL) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between January 2020 to March 2020 among T2DM patients. The data was collected from T2DM out-patient clinics. The participants were recruited by using a simple random sampling method. To assess the association of demographics with the level of adherence, binary logistics regression analysis was applied. Moreover, the Mann-Whitney U-test was used to evaluate the impact of adherence on QoL.

Results: A total of 384 patients participated in this study. Amongst them, 60.2% were male and 39.8% were female. Low adherence was seen in illiterate patients and patients older than 40 years. The results showed that good QoL in T2DM patients was significantly associated with treatment adherence (p= 0.004).

Conclusion: The finding of the current study showed that the non-adherence prevailed in illiterate strata of the study population and the medication adherence significantly affects the QoL in T2DM patients. These findings suggest that health regulatory agencies should focus on implementing disease-education interventions for improving the adherence to medications in patients with long-term conditions.

Keywords: drug adherence; quality of life; type 2 diabetes.

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The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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