Adherencia terapéutica y estilos de vida en adultos de 40 a 64 años con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en cuatro consultorios de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria del Centro de Salud Guasmo Oeste Manglar. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines adherence to treatment as taking the medication according to the prescribed program dosage and the persistence of the medication over time. Methods: The objective is to Characterize Therapeutic Adherence and Lifestyles in adults aged 40 to 64 years with type 2 diabetes mellitus, in four Family and Community Medicine offices of the Guasmo Oeste Manglar Health Center in the year 2021. For this, a standard study was established observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study population of adults 40 to 64 years of both sexes. IMEVID and Morisky-Green questionnaires were applied to them to estimate the factors that influence adherence to treatment. Results: regarding lifestyle, 71.0% of the subjects have a healthy lifestyle, 22.0% have a very healthy lifestyle and 7.0% have an unhealthy one” for the metabolic control of their disease. The overall proportion of patients with good adherence to drug treatment was 73.0%. Conclusions: In this study, adequate adherence of the study population to pharmacological management was determined, as well as non-pharmaceutical management, resulting in a healthy lifestyle in its highest percentage.