Table 1.
Medication adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes
| Variable | Adherence | Noncompliance | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percentage (%) | Number | Percentage (%) | Statistic | p | ||
| Gender | Male | 73 | 85.9 | 12 | 14.1 | 5.64 | 00.018* |
| Female | 35 | 68.6 | 16 | 31.4 | |||
| Age | < 60 years old | 58 | 86.6 | 9 | 13.4 | 4.21 | 0.040* |
| ≥ 60 years old | 50 | 72.5 | 19 | 27.5 | |||
| Income | < 3 million Tomans | 57 | 75.0 | 19 | 25.0 | 8.24 | 0.016* |
| 2-4 million Tomans | 35 | 79.5 | 9 | 20.5 | |||
| ≤ 4 million Tomans | 16 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Hemoglobin A1c | < 7 | 64 | 87.7 | 9 | 12.3 | 6.64 | 0.010* |
| ≤ 7 | 44 | 69.8 | 19 | 30.2 | |||
| Blood sugar | < 130 | 60 | 84.5 | 11 | 15.5 | 2.36 | 0.124 |
| ≤ 130 | 48 | 73.8 | 17 | 26.2 | |||
| Hypoglycemia | Positive | 42 | 65.6 | 22 | 34.4 | 14.62 | 0.0001** |
| Negative | 66 | 91.7 | 6 | 8.3 | |||
| Medication period | < 10 | 73 | 84.9 | 13 | 15.1 | 4.16 | 0.041* |
| ≤ 10 | 35 | 70.0 | 15 | 30.0 | |||
| Number of hypoglycemic tablets | 1 | 13 | 92.9 | 1 | 7.1 | 1.92 | 0.430 |
| 2-5 | 87 | 77.0 | 26 | 23.0 | |||
| < 5 | 8 | 88.9 | 1 | 11.1 | |||
| Other drugs | Yes | 99 | 78.6 | 27 | 21.4 | 0.86 | 0.353 |
| No | 9 | 90.0 | 1 | 10.0 | |||