In multivariate analyses, predictors of
poor medication adherence were: believing you have diabetes
only when your sugar is high (OR = 7.4;2–27.2),
saying there was no need to take medicine when the glucose
was normal (OR = 3.5;0.9–13.7), worrying about
side-effects of diabetes medicines (OR = 3.3;1.3–8.7),
lack of self-confidence in controlling diabetes (OR =
2.8;1.1–7.1), and feeling medicines are hard to take
(OR = 14.0;4.4–44.6). Disease and medication beliefs
inconsistent with a chronic disease model of diabetes were
significant predictors of poor medication adherence