TY - JOUR
T1 - Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors in Laotians With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
AU - Kang, Younhee
AU - Hur, Yujin
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) under the grant numbers: 2016?105-1.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - This study aims to explore diabetes mellitus (DM) medication adherence and its associated factors in Laotians with type 2 DM by determining the relationships among DM-related characteristics, diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy, diabetes locus of control, and DM medication adherence. The participants of the study were 175 patients who visited the DM clinics in Vientiane. The mean score of medication adherence was 6.26 ± 1.57 (M ± SD), corresponding to a medium adherence level. In the regression model, a total variance of medication adherence explained was 11.4%. Employment status, duration of illness, and self-efficacy were significant factors for predicting medication adherence. Self-efficacy was found to be the most important factor in explaining the variance of medication adherence. These findings indicate the need to develop an intervention program and clinical strategies in Laos promoting diabetic medication adherence that include diverse methods for enhancing self-efficacy.
AB - This study aims to explore diabetes mellitus (DM) medication adherence and its associated factors in Laotians with type 2 DM by determining the relationships among DM-related characteristics, diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy, diabetes locus of control, and DM medication adherence. The participants of the study were 175 patients who visited the DM clinics in Vientiane. The mean score of medication adherence was 6.26 ± 1.57 (M ± SD), corresponding to a medium adherence level. In the regression model, a total variance of medication adherence explained was 11.4%. Employment status, duration of illness, and self-efficacy were significant factors for predicting medication adherence. Self-efficacy was found to be the most important factor in explaining the variance of medication adherence. These findings indicate the need to develop an intervention program and clinical strategies in Laos promoting diabetic medication adherence that include diverse methods for enhancing self-efficacy.
KW - Laos
KW - developing countries
KW - diabetes mellitus
KW - medication adherence
KW - self-efficacy
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U2 - 10.1177/1054773819849349
DO - 10.1177/1054773819849349
M3 - Article
C2 - 31104478
AN - SCOPUS:85067673403
SN - 1054-7738
VL - 29
SP - 331
EP - 338
JO - Clinical Nursing Research
JF - Clinical Nursing Research
IS - 5
ER -