Table 3.
Frequency of Reporting Each Barrier to Adherence among People on Regimens with Different Level of Complexity
| Scheduling barriers |
Substance-induced barriers |
Logistic barriers | ART-induced barriers | Other barriers | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Forgot | Did not have the right pill with me |
Too busy |
Somethi ng unexpec ted came up |
Slept throug h dose time |
Too drunk or high |
Have been drinkin g |
Have been using drugs |
Ran out of pills |
Couldn ’t get to the pharma cy |
Could n’t afford |
Making me sick |
Felt depressed and overwhelmed |
Got confused with what to take |
Did not want someone to see me take them |
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| n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | n(%)a | |
| Single Tablet Regimen | 45(15.36) | 30(20.69) | 33(14.67) | 33(15.21) | 28(19.71) | 7(20.00) | 8(18.18) | 2(18.18) | 12(16.44) | 5(12.50) | 3(10.71) | 6(9.06) | 9(12.86) | 2(5.13) | 8(15.69) |
| Single-dose Multi-Tablet Regimen | 113(38.57) | 51(35.17) | 85(37.78) | 90(41.47) | 47(33.10) | 17(48.57) | 22(50.00) | 5(45.45) | 33(45.21) | 18(45.00) | 15(53.57) | 29(43.94) | 30(42.86) | 14(35.90) | 22(43.14) |
| Multi-dose Multi-Tablet Regimen | 135(46.08) | 64(44.14) | 107(47.56) | 94(43.32) | 67(47.18) | 11(31.43) | 14(31.82) | 4(36.36) | 28(38.36) | 17(42.50) | 10(35.71) | 31(46.97) | 31(44.29) | 23(58.97) | 21(41.18) |
| pb | <0.001 | 0.20 | <0.001 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.32 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.63 | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.38 |
Note:
a
Number of people reporting each barrier was averaged across three assessments and column percentages were reported for each barrier;
b
p-value from Rao Scott corrected Pearson test.