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Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Treatment noncompliance level among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A hospital based cross-sectional study in Bangladesh

  • Ishtiakul Islam Khan ,

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

    Ishtiakul.khan@icddrb.org, ishtiak.cmc@gmail.com

    Affiliation Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • Orindom Shing Pulock,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation Department of Medicine, Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • Susmita Dey Pinky,

    Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation Department of Medicine, Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • Bidduth Barua,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Chittagong Medical University, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • Taslima Ahmed Dola,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, East West Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • Pratik Chowdhury,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Medicine, CoxsBazar Medical College Hospital, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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  • Tapan Seal,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation Upazilla Health Complex, Rangunia, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • Sanzida Salekin,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation KW Clinic, Kitchener, ON, Canada

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  • Tarek Ul Quader,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • Ambarish Mitra,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation Department of Medicine, Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • M. A. Hassan Chowdhury,

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Medicine, Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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  • Syeda Rumman Aktar Siddiqui

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Chittagong Medical College, Chattogram, Bangladesh

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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. This issue has not been resolved and so the PLOS ONE Editors retract the article. The article [1] contents were removed at the time of retraction due to the permissions issue.

The authors either did not respond to the final editorial decision or could not be reached.

Please note that the MMAS®-8 scale (used in this study) was originally published in 2008 [3], 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.

Of note, additional issues came to light in our editorial assessment of this case that were not fully resolved prior to the retraction:

  • A prior article [2] reported a study that sampled a substantially larger population to address a similar research question as in [1].
  • The Methods were not reported in sufficient detail in [1], and the article did not report sufficient details as to what data were collected or how the questionnaire was validated or pretested.
  • The authors stated that they did not receive ethics approval documentation for this study because it was approved during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS did not follow up with the institution to verify this information.
  • The dataset for this study [4] includes values for the eighth question of the MMAS®-8 that are >1 and do not align with the reported scoring methods. The authors commented that this may reflect errors in the dataset.

24 Jul 2023: The PLOS ONE Editors (2023) Retraction: Treatment noncompliance level among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A hospital based cross-sectional study in Bangladesh. PLOS ONE 18(7): e0287948. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287948 View retraction

Citation: Khan II, Pulock OS, Pinky SD, Barua B, Dola TA, Chowdhury P, et al. (2022) Treatment noncompliance level among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A hospital based cross-sectional study in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 17(9): e0271107. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271107

Editor: Felix Bongomin, Gulu University, UGANDA

Received: December 3, 2021; Accepted: June 24, 2022; Published: September 13, 2022

Copyright: © 2022 Khan et al. This retracted article was originally published as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

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