Perceived Future Outcomes of Unsuccessful Treatment and Their Association with Treatment Persistence Among Type-2 Diabetes Patients: A Cross-Sectional Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the known strong association between patients' knowledge of outcomes of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and treatment persistence, this knowledge in this patient population requires further clarification. The aim of our study was to reveal the perception of unsuccessful treatment outcomes among patients with T2DM and its association with treatment persistence by analysing answers to open-ended questions.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, 106 patients with T2DM who lived in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, had a medical record in the Fukushima National Health Insurance Organisation database and had no cognitive problems were enrolled by purposive sampling. Treatment status was defined as "non-persistent" when a participant's treatment medical record was

SUBMITTER: Hidaka T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363091 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature