Open AccessAdherence to the treatment with oral antidiabetic medications in primary health care
Author(s) -
Andréa Pereira da Silva,
Bráulio Borges,
José Cláudio Garcia Lira Neto,
Fernanda Valéria Silva Dantas Avelino,
Marta María Coelho Damasceno,
Roberto Wagner Júnior Freire de Freitas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rev rene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-6783
pISSN - 1517-3852
DOI - 10.15253/2175-6783.2015000300016
Subject(s) - medicine , type 2 diabetes mellitus , diabetes mellitus , intervention (counseling) , medication adherence , quality of life (healthcare) , drug , primary care , primary health care , drug treatment , test (biology) , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , nursing , environmental health , endocrinology , paleontology , population , biology
Objective: to assess the level of adherence to the drug treatment with oral antidiabetic medications in the primaryhealth care network. Methods: analytical, quantitative study conducted with 63 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2attended in three Basic Health Units. One used a form which included sociodemographic and clinical information related totreatment adherence, assessed through the Morisky-Green test. Results: it was found that 22.2% of the patients adheredto the treatment. There were no statistically significant correlations between adherence and sociodemographic and clinicalvariables. Conclusion: non-adherence was high, requiring intervention measures to correct the problem and to promote abetter quality of life for patients with diabetes mellitus type 2.