Table 3.
Factors Potentially Related to Adherence Investigated Among United States (US) Latinos
| Factors Investigated | Association between factor and adherence* | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Better | Worse | None | |
| Patient demographic factors | |||
| Older age | 41,45,56 | ||
| Gender | 41,45 | ||
| Education level | 45 | ||
| Higher socioeconomic status | 41 | ||
| Living situation | 41 | ||
| Being married | 45 | ||
| Having health insurance | 45 | ||
| Good/excellent English proficiency | 45,56 | ||
| Less acculturation | 42 | 41 | |
| Financial support from outside family | 41 | ||
| Patient clinical factors | |||
| Years ill | 44 | ||
| Co-morbid substance abuse | 45 | 44 | |
| Severity of positive symptoms | 44 | ||
| Greater # of depressive symptoms | 45 | ||
| More insight | 45 | ||
| Having problems with role functioning | 45 | ||
| Having more “motivation” | 41 | ||
| Treatment related factors | |||
| Barriers to quality care | 45 | ||
| Antidepressant prescribed by psychiatrist | 45 | ||
| Type of antidepressant (SSRI) | 45 | ||
| 8+ visits to non-medical therapist | 45 | ||
| Seeing Spanish-speaking therapist | 41 | ||
| Seeing Latino therapist | 41 | ||
| All treatment variables in one study (years in treatment, # medications) | 41 | ||
| Total # of therapists ever | 41 | ||
| Family related factors | |||
| Family financial support | 41 | ||
| Family instrumental (“task-oriented”) support | 44 | ||
| Family emotional support | 44 | ||
| Criticism | 44 | ||
| Emotional over involvement | 44 | ||
| Warmth | 44 | ||
| Family members mentally ill | 41 | ||
*
Numbers in the table are references to the studies that investigated each factor