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The World Health Organization (2003) defines compliance as the extent to which a patient follows the regimen of drugs, the recommended diet and has managed to change the way of life, responding thus to the instructions of a health care provider. Successful efforts to improve patient compliance depends on a number of factors, with complicated and unclear effects, most often. However, factors related to patients, therapy, illness, those who are dependent on socio-economic criteria, the beliefs of patients about treatment, and relationship-communication between patient-physician appears to have stable impact on compliance. This study includes a collection of factors that help to determine the compliance of patients to treat diabetes, and causal relationship. However, a multi-faceted approach is needed to give a clear and accurate picture of whether and how the medical recommendations are followed, so that we can arrive at quantitative conclusions.