Table 2.

Participants’ reported adherence behavior by MMAS-8

Item	Percentage (%) of patients who answered yes
When you travel or leave home, do you sometimes forget to bring along your medication?	51.3
People sometimes miss taking their medications for reasons other than forgetting. Thinking over the past two weeks, were there any days when you did not take your medicine?	48.1
Have you ever cut back or stopped taking your medication without telling your doctor, because you felt worse when you took it?	46.8
Do you sometimes forget to take your medicine?	40.6
When you feel like your health condition is under control, do you sometimes stop taking your medicine?	39.0
Taking medication every day is a real inconvenience for some people. Do you ever feel hassled about sticking to your treatment plan?	31.0
How often do you have difficulty remembering to take all your medications?
Never	87.7
Once in a while	7
Sometimes	3.6
Usually	1.7
All of the time	0

Abbreviation: MMAS-8, eight-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale.