Table 3.

Reasons for non-adherence

Variable	Number	Percentage	Ranking
Forgetting to take the medicine	103	62	1
Having difficulty changing habits	98	59	2
Lack of energy	98	59	2
Having no one to help	64	38.6	3
The symptoms were not worse	43	25.9	4
It's bothersome to take medicine for a long time	30	18.1	5
The symptoms did not improve	24	14.5	6
Having the disease for a long time	24	14.5	6
The diseases that I have cannot be treated to produce complete recovery	23	13.9	7
Too many medicines to take	15	9	8
Taking different medicines at different time points was too complicated	14	8.4	9
Too busy to take medicine	12	7.2	10
It is too far from my home to the hospital	7	4.2	11
Adverse effect of the medicines	5	3	12