Table 3.

Bivariate Relationships Between Adherence and Selected Covariates

Variable	Correlation	Mean Adherence Score	P Value
Physician-patient relationship quality
General communication	0.17	—	<.0001
HIV-specific information	0.15	—	.002
Participatory decision making	0.14	—	.002
Overall physician satisfaction	0.17	—	<.0001
Willingness to recommend	0.13	—	.002
Physician trust	0.16	—	.0002
Adherence dialogue	0.21	—	<.0001
Patient characteristics
Physical health	0.12	—	.007
Mental health	0.20	—	<.0001
Age, y	0.15	—	.0004
Education*	0.08		.07
Gender			.03†
Male		88.2
Female		82.1
Beliefs about antiretroviral therapy, %			0.002†
Important		88.6
Not important		79.6
Race			0.37‡
White		88.3
African American		83.7
Hispanic		83.9
Other		87.2

^*Number of years of education was treated as a continuous variable.

^†P values are based on Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

^‡The mean values are from an analysis of variance. The P value is from a Kruskal-Wallis test.