ArticleFrontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare2022
Medication-related burden and associated factors among diabetes mellitus patients at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in northwest Ethiopia.
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- Factors influencing medication adherence in co-morbid hypertension and diabetes patients: A scoping review.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
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Background: Evaluating the medicine burden from the patients' perspective is essential for getting good health outcomes of diabetes mellitus (DM) management. However, data are limited regarding this sensitive area. Thus, the study was aimed to determine the medication-related burden (MRB) and associated factors among DM patients at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (FHCSH) in northwest Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 423 systematically selected DM patients attending the DM clinic of FHCSH from June to August 2020. The medication-related burden was measured by using the Living with Medicines Questionnaire version 3 (LMQ-3). Multiple linear regression was used to identify factors associated with medication-related burden and reported with 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: The mean LMQ-3 score was 126.52 ( ± 17.39). The majority of the participants experienced moderate (58.9%, 95% CI: 53.9-63.7) to high (26.2%, 95% CI: 22.5-30.0) degrees of medication burden. Nearly half (44.9%, 95% CI: 39.9-49.7) of the participants were non-adherent to their prescribed medications. VAS score ( Conclusion: A significant number of patients suffered from high medication-related burden and non-adherence to long-term medicine. Therefore, multidimensional intervention to decrease MRB and to upgrade adherence is required to increase patients' quality of life.
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