Table 3.

Independent Psychosocial Predictors of Compliance (N = 496)

Characteristic	Adjusted OR*	95% CI	P Value
Depression symptom severity (per 1-point increase)	0.93	0.87 to 0.99	.027
External locus of control (per 1-point increase)	1.15	0.99 to 1.33	.068

^*From an ordinal logistic regression model predicting the likelihood of being in a higher tertile of percent of the year covered by antihypertensive medications, controlling for demographic variables (age, gender, race, education level, employment status), site of treatment, use of thiazide diuretics, and the presence of comorbid conditions (coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, and renal failure).

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.