Table 2.

Disease characteristics and individual factors among patients with diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure at Dessie Referral Hospital, 2019 (N = 384).

Variable	Category	Frequency	Percent (%)
Perception towards prognosis of illness	Good	240	62.5%
	Fair	105	27.3%
	Poor	39	10.2%
Duration of disease after diagnosis	Below 3 years	163	42.4%
	3 to 6 years	157	40.9%
	Above 6 years	64	16.7%
Number of drugs taken daily	Below 5 drugs	358	93.2%
	5 and above drugs	26	6.8%