Table 1.
Associations between socioeconomic demographic variables and prevalence of medication adherence in outpatients with RA and/or SLE, Goiânia, GO, Brazil, 2013
| n=92 (%) | RA + SLE (n=92)
|
RA (n=55)
|
SLE (n=37)
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prevalence, n (%) | P-value | Prevalence, n (%) | P-value | Prevalence, n (%) | P-value | ||
| Marital status | 0.902 | 1.000 | 0.478 | ||||
| In a stable relationship | 54 (58.69) | 15 (27.78) | 5 (16.67) | 10 (41.67) | |||
| Single | 38 (41.30) | 11 (28.95) | 4 (16.00) | 7 (53.85) | |||
| Educational level | 0.306a | 0.032a | 0.500a | ||||
| Elementary school | 41 (44.56) | 12 (29.27) | 7 (22.58) | 5 (55.56) | |||
| High school | 43 (46.74) | 10 (23.26) | 10 (40.00) | ||||
| Graduate/postgraduate degree | 8 (8.69) | 4 (50.00) | 2 (40.00) | 2 (66.67) | |||
| Occupation | 0.367 | 0.140a | 0.908a | ||||
| Retiredb | 36 (39.13) | 8 (22.22) | 3 (11.11) | 5 (55.56) | |||
| Employed | 33 (35.86) | 9 (27.27) | 1 (7.14) | 8 (42.11) | |||
| Homemaker | 23 (25.00) | 9 (39.13) | 5 (35.71) | 4 (44.44) | |||
| Origin | 0.143a | ||||||
| Outside the city of goiâniac | 50 (54.34) | 14 (28.00) | 2 (7.41) | 12 (52.17) | |||
| Per capita income | 0.484a | 0.754 | 1.000 | ||||
| <1 minimum salary | 20 (48.18) | 6 (30.00) | – | 6 (42.86) | 1.000 | ||
| ≥2 minimum salary | 21 (51.22) | 4 (19.05) | 2 (13.33) | 0.754 | 2 (33.33) | ||
| Medication acquisition | |||||||
| Drugstore | 66 (70.97) | 17 (26.15) | 0.486 | 8 (17.78) | 0.548 | 9 (45.00) | 0.900 |
| Pharmacy | 46 (49.46) | 10 (22.22) | 0.208 | 3 (10.71) | 0.295a | 7 (41.18) | 0.591 |
| Health center | 55 (59.14) | 15 (27.27) | 0.797 | 6 (16.67) | 0.933 | 9 (47.37) | 0.858 |
| High-cost drug dispensing center | 26 (27.96) | 6 (23.08) | 0.488 | 4 (30.77) | 0.192 | 2 (15.38) | 0.014a |
Notes:
a
Exact Fisher’s test,
b
one patient was unemployed, and
c
two patients from other federal states.
Abbreviations: RA, rheumatoid arthritis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus.