Table 1.
General characteristics and medication adherence
| Characteristic | Medication adherence status
|
P-valuea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adherence | Nonadherence
|
|||
| Unintentional | Intentional | |||
| Age (years) | 75.3±8.6 | 74.4±8.5 | 73.2±8.6 | 0.110 |
| Gender | 0.132 | |||
| Male | 41 (41.8) | 22 (22.4) | 35 (35.7) | |
| Female | 141 (46.5) | 85 (28.1) | 77 (25.4) | |
| Educational level | 0.056 | |||
| ≤ Primary school | 159 (47.5) | 92 (27.5) | 84 (25.1) | |
| Middle school | 16 (39.0) | 9 (22.0) | 16 (39.0) | |
| ≥ High school | 7 (28.0) | 6 (24.0) | 12 (48.0) | |
| Income | 0.038 | |||
| <1 million KRW | 156 (47.1) | 93 (28.1) | 82 (24.8) | |
| 1–2 million KRW | 19 (40.4) | 9 (19.1) | 19 (40.4) | |
| ≥2 million KRW | 7 (30.4) | 5 (21.7) | 11 (47.8) | |
| Spouse | 0.426 | |||
| Yes | 80 (42.6) | 50 (26.6) | 58 (30.9) | |
| No | 102 (47.9) | 57 (26.8) | 54 (25.4) | |
| Duration | 9.2±6.8 | 8.7±8.1 | 7.8±6.3 | 0.275 |
| Drug count | 3.0±2.1 | 3.4±1.9 | 2.9±1.7 | 0.072 |
| Medication frequency | 0.676 | |||
| Once a day | 169 (46.0) | 101 (27.5) | 97 (26.4) | |
| Twice a day | 13 (38.2) | 10 (29.4) | 11 (32.4) | |
| Comorbidity | 0.958 | |||
| Yes | 104 (45.4) | 60 (26.2) | 65 (28.4) | |
| No | 78 (45.3) | 47 (27.3) | 47 (27.3) | |
| Self-rated health | 0.089 | |||
| Good | 31 (53.4) | 10 (17.2) | 17 (29.3) | |
| Normal | 60 (37.7) | 49 (30.8) | 50 (31.4) | |
| Bad | 91 (49.5) | 48 (26.1) | 45 (24.5) | |
| Total | 182 (45.4) | 107 (26.7) | 112 (27.9) | |
Notes: Values are presented as mean ± SD or n (%) unless otherwise indicated.
a
Calculated by chi-square test or analysis of variance.
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; KRW, Korean Won.