Effectiveness of Pharmacist Counselling on Medication Adherencein Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a disease with a high prevalence in Indonesia. It is one of the non-communicable diseases that contributes to quite a number of complicating diseases. So type 2 diabetes mellitus must be given appropriate and consistent therapy in order to have an effect that can improve the quality of life of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients themselves. Apart from non-pharmacological therapy, patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who have been using oral antidiabetic drugs for a long time experience many obstacles in terms of treatment. Therefore, the role of health workers, in this case pharmacists, is needed to provide counselling so that patient compliance with taking medication can be achieved which has an impact on improving the quality of life of diabetes patients.