Funcionalidad familiar y adherencia terapéutica farmacológica de pacientes diabéticos tipo 2 de una unidad de atención primaria de salud

Abstract

Frequently, diabetic patients do not achieve the proposed control objectives, one of the main causes of non-adherence to pharmacological treatment, which is sometimes linked to the lack of control in the family that determines the interest in taking the prescribed medication. In this virtue, the objective of the research is to determine the relationship between the Family functionality and pharmacological therapeutic adherence of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The research methodology is quantitative, field, descriptive. The sample consists of 60 patients with diabetes, to whom the Family Functioning Questionnaire FF-SIL and the Morisky Green Test were applied. The resultados obtained are: the most representative age group is that of 56 to 64 years with 30% followed by the group between 48 and 55 years with 23%. 70% of diabetic patients have primary education, The 8,3% of the families are functional, while 91,9% present some degree of dysfunction, being moderately funcional those that prevail with 53,3% followed by dysfunctional with 30%, 51,7% are noncompliant wiht treatment and 48,3% adhere to pharmacological treatment. There is a relationship between funtionality and drug adherence in tipo 2 diabetic patients (chi square 0f 14.630 hidher than in the distribution table 7.8147, whit degress of freedom of 3 and a significance leve lof 0,05). An intervention strategy is developed as a proposal for the participation of the family in the pharmacological therapeutic adherence of Type 2 diabetic patients from a first level care unit