Table 2.
Bivariate Associations Between Asthma Beliefs and Medication Adherence
| holds belief | All n (%) | Poor Adherence n (%) | Adequate Adherence n (%) | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 242 | 138 (57.0) | 104 (43.0) | |||
| Asthma Illness Beliefs n (%) | |||||
| No symptoms, no asthma | |||||
| yes | 114 (47.1) | 81 (58.7) | 33 (31.7) | <0.0001 | |
| no | 128 (52.9) | 57 (41.3) | 71 (68.3) | ||
| I will not always have asthma | |||||
| yes | 61 (25.2) | 48 (34.8) | 13 (12.5) | <0.0001 | |
| no | 181 (74.8) | 90 (65.2) | 91 (87.5) | ||
| Doctor can cure my asthma | |||||
| yes | 40 (16.5) | 30 (21.7) | 10 (9.6) | 0.01 | |
| no | 202 (83.5) | 108 (78.3) | 94 (90.4) | ||
| Asthma Treatment Beliefs* | |||||
| Treatment benefit median (IQR)† | 0 (2) | 0 (2) | 0 (1) | <0.001 | |
| Treatment necessity mean(SD) | 13 (4.5) | 13.9 (4.7) | 11.8 (4.1) | <0.001 | |
| Treatment concerns mean(SD) | 13.1 (4.2) | 13.9 (4.2) | 12.0 (4.1) | <0.001 | |
*Treatment beliefs are scaled so that higher responses indicate more negative beliefs towards treatment benefit, necessity, and consequences of its use
†IQR denotes interquartile range, a number which denotes the spread of the middle fifty percent of the data, calculated as the distance between the 75th percentile from the 25th percentile