Objective
To investigate the association between adherence to type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment and sociodemographic, clinical and metabolic control variables.
Methods
Cross-sectional study that included 417 diabetes mellitus patients. The research instrument was a questionnaire with the study variables; Treatment Adherence Measure; Food Consumption Frequency Questionnaire and International Physical Exercise Questionnaire. Fisher’s Exact Test was used to analyze the data.
Results
About 98.3% showed non adherence to the diet, 41.9% to physical exercise and 15.8% to the medication treatment.
Conclusion
No association was found between adherence to type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment and sex, age, years of education, length of diagnosis and metabolic control variables.
Patient compliance; Diabetes mellitus/nursing; Nursing care; Primary care nursing; Primary health care