Table 5.
Relationship between medication adherence, treatment satisfaction, and the patient–doctor relationship.
| Item | Adherence | p-value | Satisfaction | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Good | Very low | Low | Moderate | High | Very high | |||
| Satisfaction | |||||||||
| Very low | 12 (22.22%) | 12 (5.83%) | < 0.001 | ||||||
| Low | 27 (50%) | 62 (30.1%) | |||||||
| Moderate | 7 (12.96%) | 49 (23.79%) | |||||||
| High | 1 (1.85%) | 20 (9.71%) | |||||||
| Very high | 7 (12.96%) | 63 (30.58%) | |||||||
| Patient–doctor relationship | |||||||||
| Poor | 3 (5.56%) | 4 (1.94%) | 0.034 | 4 (16.67%) | 2 (2.25%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.43%) | < 0.001 |
| Moderate | 25 (46.3%) | 66 (32.04%) | 12 (50%) | 45 (50.56%) | 21 (37.5%) | 3 (14.29%) | 10 (14.29%) | ||
| Good | 26 (48.15%) | 136 (66.02%) | 8 (33.33%) | 42 (47.19%) | 35 (62.5%) | 18 (85.71%) | 59 (84.29%) | ||
Numerical data are presented as mean ± SD, categorical data as frequency (%). Statistical significance was set at p-value < 0.05.