Validity and reliability of the ARMS-e questionnaire in patients with type 2 Diabetes mellitus
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https://doi.org/10.30827/ars.v65i2.30206Keywords:
Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Hypoglycemic Agents, Medication Adherence, Reproducibility of Results, Surveys and Questionnaires, Validation StudiesAbstract
Introduction: The Adherence to Refills and Medications Scale questionnaire (ARMS) was designed to measure adherence to treatment. It was translated and adapted into Spanish, but its psychometric properties have not been evaluated. The aim was to evaluate these properties in a population with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Method: The study was carried out in community pharmacies in Granada (Spain) by interview. A principal component factor analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotation (construct validity), a concordance analysis (concurrent criterion validity and reliability by temporal stability) and Cronbach’s alpha and item-total correlation (reliability by homogeneity) were performed.
Results: 107 patients entered the study. 54.2 % (58) were male and the mean age was 70.5 (SD: 9.7). The PCA extracted 4 factors that explained 57.49 % of the total variance. Cronbach’s alpha= 0.428, and in the test-retest κ= 0.627 (p > 0.001).
Conclusions: The ARMS-e cannot be considered a useful tool to measure adherence to oral antidiabetic treatment in this sample.
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