Belayneh Kefale Gelaw|Abdul Mustaq Mohammed|Gobezie Temesgen Tegegne|Amsalu Degu Defersha|Muluneh Fromsa|Esayas Tadesse|Thirumurugan Gunasekaran|Mustefa Ahmed
Nonadherence and Contributing Factors among Ambulatory Patients with Antidiabetic Medications in Adama Referral Hospital
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objective study determine magnitude nonadherence contributing factors among diabetic patients attending diabetic clinic adama hospital methods descriptive crosssectional study carried among patients diabetes mellitus attending diabetes mellitus clinic adama referral hospital every patient selected data regarding medication adherence collected using structured interview data analysis carried using spss16 result response rate study 983 total 270 patients interviewed 515 males total 681 patients included study married 14 younger 40 years 50 40 60 years 218 participants ascribed nonadherence forgetting take medications patients duration diabetesmmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathml idm1mmlmrowmmlmommlmommlmrowmmlmath5 years 8207 compliant medication withmmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathml idm2mmlmrowmmlmogtmmlmommlmrowmmlmath5 years 608 found statistically significantmmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathml idm3mmlmo stretchyfalsemmlmommlmipmmlmimmlmommlmommlmn0003mmlmnmmlmo stretchyfalsemmlmommlmath insulin 47 glibenclamide plus metformin 437 commonly prescribed mono combination therapies respectively common comorbid conditions include hypertension 148 5482 visual impairment 89 3296 proportion male patients adherent antidiabetic medications found lower 6978 compared female patients 7481 difference statistically significantmmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathml idm4mmlmo stretchyfalsemmlmommlmipmmlmimmlmogtmmlmommlmn005mmlmnmmlmo stretchyfalsemmlmommlmath conclusion diabetic patients currently managed effective available drugs however result study indicates desired blood sugar level could controlled maintained adequately poor adherence prescribed drug regimen poor knowledge practice successful selfmanagement