Table 2 Reasons for medication non-adherence among patients with T2D on follow up in Ethiopia, 2019
Reasons | Study participants (N = 357) |
|---|---|
Frequency (%) | |
Forgetting to take their medicine | 131 (36.7) |
Inadequate availability of medication | 102 (28.6) |
Cost of medication too expensive | 45 (12.6) |
Fear of medication adverse events | 35 (9.8) |
Difficulty of administration/time schedule | 28 (7.8) |
Inadequate instruction/counseling/education | 26 (7.3) |
When feeling better or worse their disease | 23 (6.4) |
Busy due to workload | 13 (3.6) |
During fasting period | 21 (5.9) |
Regimen complexity of the medicine | 21 (3.6) |
Patient prefers not to take the medicine | 15 (2.8) |
Disbelief in medicine effectiveness | 13 (3.6) |