• Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Rehman, Iltaf Hussain, Imran Imran, Muhammad Usman Saleem, Hamid Saeed, Furqan K Hashmi, Muqarrab Akbar, Muhammad Asad Abrar, Basit Ramzan, Muhammad Omer Chaudhry, Muhammad Islam, Naveed Nisar, and RasoolMuhammad FawadMF0000-0002-8607-8583Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan..
• Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan.
• Patient Prefer Adher. 2021 Jan 1; 15: 475-481.

AimThe 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.MethodsA 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.ResultsA 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).ConclusionThe 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.© 2021 Majeed et al.

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