Assessment of Morisky Medication Adherence scale (8-MMAS) in a sample of Iraqi type 2 diabetic patients

Saied-Quraish,; F. Al-Tukmagi, Haydar; F. AL-Auqbi, Tawfeeq

	Assessment of Morisky Medication Adherence scale (8-MMAS) in a sample of Iraqi type 2 diabetic patients
IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 212-215
Authors
; Haydar F. Al-Tukmagi; Tawfeeq F. AL-Auqbi
Abstract
Background: Low patients compliance to prescribed medications is an important and complex problem; Non-compliance imposes a considerable health care and financial burden on the health system. Objectives: To assess the drug adherence in a sample of Iraqi patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus on oral hypoglycemic agents, using 8-item Morisky Medication adherence scale. Patients and methods: A cross sectional questionnaire based study enrolled 300 type 2 diabetes patients; held in the National Diabetes Center (NDC)/ Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad – Iraq; from January 2015 through April 2015.Patients’ adherence to Oral medication was assessed using Morisky 8-item medication adherence scale (MMAS-8). Results: No significant difference in mean Morisky score was obtained between male and female patients (P>0.05). Education level had a highly significant impact on mean Morisky score, (P<0.001). Residency of patients also had a highly significant effect of Morisky score (P<0.001); It was very clear that patients living in rural areas had higher score than patients living in urban areas; the score of patients from rural area was 7.14+10.5 while the score of patients from urban area was 6.61+1.23. Conclusion: The study concluded that low/ moderate drug adherence of diabetes among the diabetic patients, which need more effort and role to be played by clinical pharmacist to fulfill this gap.
Keywords
Morisky scale; Type

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