Table 2.

Description of the main issues covered in the domains of the Brief Medical Questionnaire. Bagé, RS, Southern Brazil, 2008. (N = 1,242)

Questions		%
Regime domain
	Reported missing a day of treatment	59.8
	Reported missing doses of treatment	37.6
Beliefs domain
	Reported that some medications “do not work properly”	5.2
Recall domain
	Receive a schematic of multiple doses of medications	65.3
	Reported difficulty in reading what was written on the packet	20.8
	Reported difficulty in remembering to take medications	16.0
	Reported difficulty in obtaining the medications	12.0
	Reported difficulties in taking various medicines at the same time	13.5