Factors Impacting Adherence to Diabetes Medication Among Urban, Low Income Mexican-Americans with Diabetes.

ABSTRACT: Mexican-Americans carry a high burden of type 2 diabetes and are disproportionately affected by diabetes related mortality and morbidity. Poor adherence to medication is an important barrier to achieving metabolic control and contributes to adverse health outcomes and health disparities. Little is known about barriers and facilitators to medication adherence among Mexican-Americans with diabetes. This is a qualitative study of semi-structured interviews with a sample of 27 adults (25 Mexican-Americans and 2 Latinos of other origin) with self-reported type 2 diabetes who were recruited as part of a church-based, randomized controlled trial for diabetes self-management education in a low-income, immigrant neighborhood of Chicago. Face-to-face, in-depth interviews were conducted (one in Engli

SUBMITTER: Baghikar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6707897 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature