Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: September | Volume: 7 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 167-170
Medication Skipping Pattern among General and Rotation Shift Workers in Tertiary Care Hospital in Chennai, India
S. Sivabalamurugan1, V. Bhavani2
1Diabetologist, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, KK Nagar, Chennai, India
2 Dietician, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, KK Nagar, Chennai, India
Corresponding Author: V. Bhavani
ABSTRACT
The present study explores the medication skipping habit which includes both Oral Antidiabetic Drugs (OAD) and insulin among General and Rotation shift diabetic patients in a tertiary care hospital in Chennai. About 200 diabetic subjects were randomly selected based on the inclusion criteria and were briefed out about the study. After obtaining the consent, an interview schedule was used to collect information on OAD, Insulin intake of the study participants. Later the raw data underwent statistical analysis and the results were interpreted. About 34.5% of the subjects were skipped the medication. Among them 58% and 42% were Rotation and General shift workers respectively. About 75% and 59% of the rotation shift workers skips medication daily and on alternate days. ‘Forget to take medication’ and ‘unavailability of the medication’ were the major reasons shared by the participants to skip medication. The study concludes that rotation shift workers were more prone to medication skipping than the General shift workers. Thus it is essential to create additional awareness among the Rotation shift workers to continue the medication regularly to maintain the blood glucose level and to prevent diabetic related micro and macro vascular complication .
Keywords: Insulin, Oral Antidiabetic Drugs, Medication skipping, Diabetes, Rotation shift, General shift
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