“…A study done by Bonger and Tariku (2018), revealed that the extent to which individuals adhere to the recommended management of T2DM is substantially low whereby about 80% of diabetes patients did not adhere to the recommended diet management and self-monitoring of blood glucose level, while a majority (96%) of the respondents adhere to the prescribed medications. A study done by Rijal et al (2022), to assess compliance of diabetes patients to diet and exercise revealed that compliance on diet was reasonable compared to exercise aspects. Several studies indicated that demographic and socioeconomic, clinical, and healthrelated characteristics such as age, religion, employment status, sex, family support, duration of T2DM, presence of comorbidities and diabetes-related complications influence compliance to recommended management practices (Ayele et al, 2018;Zarei et al, 2022;Zewdie et al, 2022).…”