Type 2 diabetes patients’ and providers’ differing perspectives on medication nonadherence: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Table 1 Descriptive summary of included studies (N = 86)

Geography	N	Percent
Australia	5	5.8
Canada	7	8.1
Ontario	6	6.9
British Columbia	1	1.2
Europe	31	36
Netherlands	5	5.8
Romania	2	2.3
Sweden	2	2.3
United Kingdom	16	18.6
Other^a	6	6.9
United States	43	50
Study Participants	N	%
Patients only	72	83.7
Patients and providers	5	5.8
Providers only	9	10.5
Qualitative Methodologies	N	%
Content analysis	7	8.1
Ethnography	4	4.7
Grounded theory	17	19.8
Other^b	8	9.3
Phenomenological	4	4.7
Qualitative (otherwise unspecified)	46	53.4

^a “Other” countries include: Multi-country studies, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Croatia
^b “Other” methods include: linguistic analysis (1), discourse analysis (1), narrative analysis (1), participatory action (1), framework analysis (1), and cognitive task analysis (3)

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