TY - JOUR AU - Zahid, Anza AU - Ayub, Muhammad Ali AU - Saeed, Mujtaba AU - Pasha, Nasir AU - Dar, Abdul Jabbar AU - Javed, Huzaifa AU - Shakeel, Aimen AU - Nasir, Amna AU - Akbar, Ana AU - Tarrar, Zainab AU - Humayun, Ayesha PY - 2018/03/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Treatment Compliance in Diabetics: Physician-Patient Relationship JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 23 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v23i4.2224 UR - https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/2224 SP - 503-507 AB - <p>Diabetes is a chronic disease and non-compliance attitude of patients poses a great challenge to&nbsp;the success of therapy. Multiple factors influence compliance among diabetics and other chronic diseases and&nbsp;non-compliance results in avoidable consequences and complications. In order to determine the magnitude<br>and factors of non-compliance to physicians’ advice in diabetics attending outpatients, a cross-sectional&nbsp;analytical study was conducted in outpatient diabetic clinics of Shaikh Zayed and Services Hospitals in Lahore.&nbsp;Results presented in this study are based on 177 patients investigated for 3 months (April 2014-June<br>2014). Subjects were conveniently enrolled after taking written informed consent using a self-constructed&nbsp;and structured questionnaire. Out of 177 participants, 55.36% were females and 51.41% participants were&nbsp;in the range of 52-75 years of age. Among 79 males, majority (45.6%) were employees, whereas 91.8% were<br>housewives among females’ participants,. Out of 177 diabetic patients, 42 patients (23.7%) were non-compliant&nbsp;and 135 patients (62.5%) were found to be compliant. The normal glucose level was observed in&nbsp;120/177 (67.8%) of participants. Interestingly, 97.2% subjects revealed agood attitude as the main trait of a<br>practitioner whereas 2.8% claimed good practice and competency. Conversely, 94.4% blamed bad attitude&nbsp;as a trait of bad doctor whereas 4.6% reported that the bad practice and incompetency is responsible for the&nbsp;negative trait. Taken together, compliance to physician’s advice is better among diabetics attending tertiary<br>care hospitals in current study. The study encourages our health care system to provide more awareness and&nbsp;obtain a deeper understanding of factors causing non-compliance. A positive relationship between patient&nbsp;and practitioners would positively impact on the clinical outcome of the ailments and their therapies.</p> ER -