Table 2.
Neurological, nursing, psychological, pharmaceutical, and rehabilitative care frequencies (number of contacts) and durations (minutes) in adherent vs nonadherent patients over the 12-month study period
| Adherent patients (N=105)
|
Nonadherent patients (N=19)
|
Two-sided t-test (P-value) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Minimum | Maximum | Mean | SD | Minimum | Maximum | ||
| Care frequency (n) | |||||||||
| Neurologist | 3.38 | 2.25 | 0 | 11 | 3.26 | 2.56 | 0 | 12 | 0.8525 |
| Nurse | 4.76 | 4.22 | 0 | 22 | 5.21 | 4.76 | 0 | 21 | 0.7040 |
| Psychologist | 1.40 | 3.37 | 0 | 18 | 2.53 | 4.34 | 0 | 17 | 0.2942 |
| Pharmacist | 2.37 | 4.05 | 0 | 17 | 2.05 | 2.86 | 0 | 13 | 0.6798 |
| Rehabilitation | 1.24 | 2.14 | 0 | 9 | 1.68 | 2.43 | 0 | 6 | 0.4607 |
| Care duration (minutes) | |||||||||
| Neurologist | 68.97 | 59.15 | 0 | 280 | 95.26 | 87.60 | 15 | 350 | 0.2224 |
| Nurse | 126.43 | 125.58 | 0 | 585 | 138.23 | 184.01 | 0 | 835 | 0.7910 |
| Psychologist | 86.86 | 228.63 | 0 | 1,525 | 169.74 | 294.88 | 0 | 1,140 | 0.2570 |
| Pharmacist | 22.42 | 42.71 | 0 | 230 | 24.89 | 44.75 | 0 | 200 | 0.8250 |
| Rehabilitation | 50.05 | 163.37 | 0 | 1,570 | 40.79 | 52.16 | 0 | 140 | 0.6434 |