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RETRACTED: Assessment of medication adherence and knowledge regarding the disease among ambulatory patients with diabetes mellitus in Karachi, Pakistan

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  1. 1Faculty of Pharmacy, Hamdard University, Karachi, PAKISTAN.
  2. 2Faculty of Pharmacy, Ziauddin University, Karachi, PAKISTAN.

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Atta Abbas

Faculty of Pharmacy, Hamdard University, Karachi, PAKISTAN.

bg33bd@student.sunderland.ac.uk

Volume 7, Issue 4 · pp. 328-340 · 2015 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2015.4.7

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Objective: To report medication adherence among ambulatory patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) using Morisky 8-item medication adherence MMAS-8 scale and assess current standard of knowledge regarding their disease using a especially developed Patient 10-item Knowledge Assessment PKA-X scale.Methods: A quantitative cross sectional study was conducted for 3 months in Karachi, Pakistan using Morisky 8-item medication adherence scale® documenting the medication adherence of ambulatory patients with DM and to find out their knowledge regarding the disease using a newly developed Patient 10-item knowledge assessment PKA-X scale.Results: The mean MMAS-8 score of the total sample was 4.69 (1.9 SD) which was interpreted as ‘Low medication adherence’ (P value0.05).Conclusion: The medication adherence of the patients is very low and adequate measures are the need of the hour to address this issue though the standard of knowledge has greatly improved. However, having good knowledge about the disease does not guarantee adherence to medication regimen.

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    Abbas, A., Kachela, B., Arif, J. M., Tahir, K. B., Shoukat, N., & Ali, N. B. (2015). RETRACTED: Assessment of medication adherence and knowledge regarding the disease among ambulatory patients with diabetes mellitus in Karachi, Pakistan. Journal of Young Pharmacists, 7(4), 328-340. https://doi.org/10.5530/jyp.2015.4.7

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