Table 4.

Multivariable Relationship of Measures of Physician-Patient Relationship Quality to Adherence, Adjusted for Age, Gender, Education, Race, Physical Health, and Mental Health

Physician-Patient Relationship Quality Measure	Odds Ratio*	95% CI	P Value
General communication	1.15	1.07 to 1.23	.0001
HIV-specific information	1.09	1.01 to 1.16	.02
Participatory decision making	1.07	0.99 to 1.15	.12
Overall physician satisfaction	1.14	1.04 to 1.25	.004
Willingness to recommend physician	1.09	1.02 to 1.15	.009
Physician trust	1.10	1.01 to 1.21	.03
Adherence dialogue	1.20	1.10 to 1.30	<.0001

^*The 0 to 100 adherence variable was transformed into 20 equal ordinal categories of 5 points each for modeling. The odds ratio is therefore the odds of a 5-point change in adherence for a unit change in the independent variable. For each of the interpersonal care variables a unit change is 10 points on the 0- to 100-point scale.