Table 5.
Patient-Physician Partnership Study: Baseline Adherence, Participatory Decision Making and Satisfaction for 279 Patients
| Characteristic | No. of Patients (%) |
Mean (standard deviation) |
| Hill-Bone Scale | ||
| Sodium subscale | 5.4 (1.6) | |
| Appointment subscale | 2.7 (1.0) | |
| Medication subscale | 10.3 (2.0) | |
| Total | 18.4 (3.0) | |
| Medication non-adherence* | 98 (36.4) | |
| Participatory Decision Making | 69.7 (23.3) | |
| Satisfaction: | ||
| Satisfied with visit | ||
| Neutral to strongly disagree | 4 (1.5) | |
| Agree | 139 (50.9) | |
| Strongly agree | 130 (47.6) | |
| Would recommend MD | ||
| Neutral or disagree | 3 (1.1) | |
| Agree | 187 (68.5) | |
| Strongly agree | 83 (30.4) |
*Medication non-adherence (Morisky) = a positive response to at least one of four questions regarding forgetting to take medications, stopping medications because of feeling better, stopping medications because of feeling worse, and missing medications because of carelessness.
** Participatory Decision-Making is measured using patient ratings of physicians' likelihood of giving the patient choice, control, responsibility in decision-making and scored on a 0–100 point scale.