Association between Native Language and Adherence to the Treatment of Chronic Diseases: Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus in the Older Adult in Peru

Objectives: To establish whether there is an association between adherence to treatment and the patient's language. Design: The article presents an analytical cross-sectional design. Data Sources: The study used the 2019 Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES) in 33,760 homes throughout Peru, carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). Due to the nature of our population, a sample size calculation was performed using the frequency of the expected outcome. Review Methods: A bibliography search was carried out in PUBMED, GoogleSchoolar, and Redalyc. Results: In the regression analysis, we observed that in the crude model the risk of having non-adherence to treatment in people with a native mother tongue was 1.607, the risk of older adults with a mother tongue Spanish. Regarding the model adjusted by the epidemiological model, the prevalence of risk was 1.60; this association was shown to be statistically significant. Conclusion: If the patient presents a language different from that of the treating physician, it is more likely that the treatment will be missed.