. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2008 Dec;6(5):255–263. doi: 10.1016/j.amjopharm.2008.11.001

Table 1.

Setting up own medication schedule (among those taking at least one prescription drug)^*

Characteristics	Setting up own schedule	Not setting up own schedule
N	257 (75%)	86 (25%)
Age: (mean (SD)	77.07 (6.48)	78.87 (7.24)
Sex: % female	180 (70.04 %)	58 (67.44 %)
Education: % > high school	172 (66.93 %)	55 (63.95 %)
Number of Rx drugs: mean (SD)	4.30 (2.56)	4.10 (2.91)
% ≥ 5 Rx drugs	98 (38.13 %)	32 (37.21 %)
Dosing frequency % ≥ 4 times/day	34 (3.10 %)	14 (4.20 %)
Adherence: % fully adherent	231 (89.88 %)	87.21 %
% with prescription insurance	220 (86.96 %)	63 (75 %)
HVLT mean (SD)	20.00 (5.50)	16.75 (6.88)
Trails B (mean(SD))	0.18 (0.09)	0.17 (0.10)

For the univariate analyses, the sample size across the different variables varies slightly from 337 to 343, depending on data missing on given variables.