Table 2.

Scores obtained for the two questionnaires, the Maastricht Utrecht Adherence in Hypertension short version (MUAH-16) and the Medication Adherence Universal Questionnaire (MAUQ®)

N = 300	MUAH-16 mean (SD)	MAUQ mean (SD)	Pearson’s r (95% CI)
Overall score	83.37 (8.85)	84.09 (8.91)	0.946 (0.933 : 0.957)
Positive attitude towards health care and medication	25.49 (2.49)	25.68 (2.23)	0.846 (0.810 : 0.875)
Lack of discipline	23.88 (4.69)	23.88 (4.69)	–
Aversion towards medication	15.64 (5.51)	15.46 (5.75)	0.963 (0.953 : 0.970)
Active coping with health problems	18.36 (4.40)	19.06 (3.98)	0.855 (0.821 : 0.883)

*All correlations were significant at the 0.001 level