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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between medication adherence and health-related quality of life among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients. A correlational survey design was used in this study. The study was conducted through assisted questionnaire administration via face to face with 188 T2DM patients. The questionnaire used was the Medication Compliance Questionnaire (MCQ) and Diabetes Quality of Life revised version (DQoL-R). Descriptive analysis, Crosstabs analysis and Chi-Square test was used to run the data of this study. Result shows the average age of the participants were 64.60 years old and a significant relationship was found between medication adherences with the domain Worry in diabetes quality of life. In conclusion, this study may provide a significant finding on quality of life factors which also need to be appropriately intervene in order to improve medication adherence among type 2 diabetes patients in Malaysian health care.
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To Cite this Article: Zakaria, N., Mohamed, N. F., Tajuddin, N. A. A., & Sari, N. A. M. (2021). The Relationship Between Medication Adherence and Health-Related Quality of Life among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) Patients. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(7), 670–680.
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