Table 2.

Motivated to take immunosuppression medication (coded 15 times).

Authors’ interpretation of interviews	Supportive quotations from patients	Study identification number
To avoid dialysis	"Because I want to keep my kidney working right. The alternative is dialysis, and that’s not fun."	114
Because it was prescribed by the doctor	"For myself I never choose medications because I don’t know anything medical so whatever they recommended I eat it. So it’s not my choice at all."	116
To stay alive	"I take it (medication) because it helps me to continue to live to see another day, and also keeps me from going into the hospital…If I don’t take it I’m only hurting myself."	108
To prevent rejection	"I don’t want to have my kidney reject."	106
To be adherent because of a death in the family due to non-adherent behavior	"It’s amazing what missing your medications can do to you, and my father is a good example of that. He (my father) might have been able to prevent that stroke had he taken his medications that morning. He felt good, he felt like he was not in a lot of danger."	108