Table III.

Motives to share or not to share the reasons for non-adherence to ART with the physician in patients taking ART and 2 × 2 chi-square analysis of presence/absence of each motive × sharing/not sharing why adhering to ART with physician.

Motive category	Illustrative quotations	Frequency (n = 58)(%)	X2 Df=1 (n = 21)
Motives to share reasons for non-adherence to ART
Important to talk about adherence	‘It is extremely important for the physician to know (the reasons for non-adherence).’	56.7	19.97***
Physician asks	‘Because there was times that he (the physician) asked me, “Are you sure that you are taking the medications at the correct time?”’	29.3	0.627**
To maintain a good relationship	‘It teaches me to be honest with myself and therefore be honest with someone else (the physician).’	15.5	2.77
Indications in surrogate markers	‘When he got the genotype back, he knew I was resistant to the medication. What was going to say? I couldn’t lie.’	13.8	2.42
Ran out of prescriptions	‘I told my physician that I need a prescription for my medication, “If I don’t have a prescription, I can’t take the medication until I get the prescription from you.”’	3.5	0.54
Motives not to share reasons for non-adherence to ART
Not important to talk about adherence	‘I thought this was none of his business.’	12.1	30.52***
Physician does not ask	‘She never asks me specifics.’	6.9	16.47***
Not seen physician yet	‘I need to. I haven’t been to an appointment yet to talk to him about it.’	6.9	16.47***
Rarely/never happens	‘I don’t think it is worth bothering him about. I think that my compliance is pretty good.’	5.2	3.90*
No indications in surrogate markers	‘We did not talk about it (reasons for non-adherence). We do talk about other things. I mean, she sees the lab work and she sees I am doing stable.’	1.8	0.64

^*p_f<0.05

^**p_f<0.01

^***p_f<0.001.