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Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Medication adherence and its associated factors among type 2 diabetic patients in Ethiopian General Hospital, 2019: Institutional based cross-sectional study

  • Belete Achamyelew Ayele ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    belete413@gmail.com

    Affiliation Wogeda Primary Hospital, Amhara Regional Health Bureau, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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  • Sofonyas Abebaw Tiruneh,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Public Health (Epidemiology), College of Health Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

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  • Asnakew Achaw Ayele,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, School of Health, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

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  • Melaku Tadege Engidaw,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Public Health (Human Nutrition), College of Health Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

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  • Getachew Yideg Yitbarek,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences (Medical Physiology), College of Health Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

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  • Alemayehu Digssie Gebremariam

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Public Health (Human Nutrition), College of Health Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

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Retraction

After this article [1] was published, it came to light that the authors did not have permission to use the MMAS®-8 scale [2], which was used in the reported study to collect medication adherence data.

This issue has not been resolved following discussions between PLOS and the authors. Therefore, the PLOS Global Health Editors retract this article. Considering the nature of the concerns in this case, the article contents were removed from the journal’s website at the time of retraction.

The authors did not reply or could not be reached to comment on the retraction decision.

Note: the MMAS®-8 scale (used in this study) was originally published in 2008 [2], but the copyright for the scale was registered by Donald E. Morisky on September 21, 2018 (U.S. Copyright Registration No. TX0008632533/2018-09-21). The MMAS® trademark was also registered by Donald E. Morisky on January 29, 2019 (Reg. No. 5837374). Any reference to “MMAS” in this article [1] is for research fair use purposes.

10 Apr 2023: The PLOS Global Public Health Editors (2023) Retraction: Medication adherence and its associated factors among type 2 diabetic patients in Ethiopian General Hospital, 2019: Institutional based cross-sectional study. PLOS Global Public Health 3(4): e0001834. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001834 View retraction

Citation: Ayele BA, Tiruneh SA, Ayele AA, Engidaw MT, Yitbarek GY, Gebremariam AD (2022) Medication adherence and its associated factors among type 2 diabetic patients in Ethiopian General Hospital, 2019: Institutional based cross-sectional study. PLOS Glob Public Health 2(5): e0000099. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000099

Editor: Palash Chandra Banik, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, BANGLADESH

Received: September 3, 2021; Accepted: March 6, 2022; Published: May 10, 2022

Copyright: © 2022 Ayele et al. This retracted article was originally published as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. While the article contents were removed from PLOS ONE online at the time of retraction, the Creative Commons Attribution License continues to apply to any existing copies of the article.

Data Availability: The Data Availability statement was deleted at the time of the article’s removal. See the accompanying retraction notice for more information.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.