Table 3.

Correlation between adherence, beliefs and knowledge about their treatments for the 100 patients

	Beliefs	Drugs mentioned		Known indications
		r	P value	r	P value
Good adherent (N=11)	Specific beliefs—necessity	−0.22	0.5220	0.17	0.6185
	Specific beliefs—concerns	−0.01	0.9837	−0.11	0.7403
	General beliefs—harm	0.07	0.8488	0.15	0.6686
	General beliefs—overuse	0.37	0.2651	0.26	0.4422
Low adherent (N=79)	Specific beliefs—necessity	0.01	0.9540	−0.07	0.5457
	Specific beliefs—concerns	−0.12	0.2994	−0.11	0.3491
	General beliefs—harm	−0.21	0.0689	−0.30	0.0069
	General beliefs—overuse	−0.23	0.0401	−0.21	0.0630
Non-adherent (N=10)	Specific beliefs—necessity	−0.35	0.3216	−0.43	0.2149
	Specific beliefs—concerns	0.41	0.2434	0.44	0.2064
	General beliefs—harm	0.21	0.5643	0.57	0.0858
	General beliefs—overuse	0.38	0.2726	0.47	0.1677

Values corresponding to statistically significant results are in bold.