Udupa Hrushikesh, Viswanath Anusree, Umesh Shenoy Pooja, Antao Karen Jennifer, Das Ranajit
Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, IND.
Data Analytics, Bioinformatics and Structural Biology (DABS), Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, IND.
Cureus. 2023 Aug 7;15(8):e43098. doi: 10.7759/cureus.43098. eCollection 2023 Aug.
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has emerged as a major global healthcare problem. The risk of diabetes can be reduced by maintaining blood glycaemic levels, which can be achieved by stringent adherence to the treatment regime. Therefore, there is a continuing need to assess the level of adherence to medication/self-care activities and the factors that are related to non-adherence to medication and self-care. This would facilitate healthcare professionals to identify subjects with low medication adherence and thereby aid them in planning interventions to improve medication and self-care adherence. In this study, we aimed to estimate the proportion of medication adherence among diabetic patients above 60 years of age attending a tertiary care hospital in Southern India. We found that 72% of type 2 diabetes patients were adherent to the medications prescribed to them and there was a discernible effect of gender and literacy on medication adherence. However, more such regional studies need to be conducted with a larger sample size from diverse hospital setups to obtain a clear and unbiased picture of the drug adherence scenario in India.
糖尿病已成为一个主要的全球医疗保健问题。通过维持血糖水平可以降低糖尿病风险，而这可以通过严格遵守治疗方案来实现。因此，持续需要评估药物治疗/自我护理活动的依从水平以及与不坚持药物治疗和自我护理相关的因素。这将有助于医疗保健专业人员识别药物依从性低的患者，从而帮助他们规划干预措施以提高药物治疗和自我护理的依从性。在本研究中，我们旨在估计在印度南部一家三级护理医院就诊的60岁以上糖尿病患者的药物依从比例。我们发现，72%的2型糖尿病患者坚持服用为他们开的药物，并且性别和识字水平对药物依从性有明显影响。然而，需要从不同医院环境中抽取更大样本量进行更多此类区域研究，以获得印度药物依从情况的清晰且无偏差的图景。
