Abstract
A cross sectional, observational study to determine the factors that influence the adherence for follow-up and non-compliance for intravitreal anti VEGF injections in patients with diabetic macular edema.Mean SD/frequency,Shapiro Wilk test, Fisher’s exact test/chi square test, Mann whitney U test was used .A total of 250 patients were included in the study with a mean age of 58.18years (± 8.28). pain (64.80%), unaffordability (60.80), remembering follow up visit dates (83.20%), fear of complications of injections (81.60%), too many injections (84.0%), general condition (63.60%) and transportation in 60.80%, Psychosocial burden are the key barriers for adherence.Most of the patients had a good knowledge about DME but still there was a lack of awareness in few people. Even though there were a lot of barriers, most patients wanted to get treatment mainly because of prompting by their doctors.
