Table 4.

Odds ratios of the selected demographic and clinical parameters that may affect medication nonadherence

Dependent variables	P-value	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval
Age	0.86	1.0	0.97–1.04
Sex	0.44	1.3	0.65–2.73
Marital status	0.77	0.9	0.61–1.44
Education	0.09	0.3	0.08–1.21
Smoking	0.50	1.3	0.63–2.58
Living with others	0.37	0.8	0.58–1.23
Place of residence	0.55	0.9	0.59–1.32
Irregular follow-up attendance	0.001	5.7	2.92–11.31
Diagnosis	0.01	1.5	1.07–1.95

Notes: Logistic regression analysis revealed that diagnosis and irregular follow-up attendance were the variables that had significant effects on medication nonadherence.