Table 2. Medication adherence by socioeconomic characteristics among MMT patients.
| Characteristics | Complete adherence | Incomplete adherence | Total | OR (95%CI) |
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Total | 417 | 82.2 | 90 | 17.8 | 507 | 100.0 | ||
| Age (years), mean, SD | 36.8 | 7.6 | 35.5 | 7.8 | 36.6 | 7.7 | 0.98 (0.95–1.01) | 0.05 |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 411 | 98.3 | 91 | 98.9 | 502 | 98.4 | 1.00 (ref) | 0.56 |
| Female | 7 | 1.7 | 1 | 1.1 | 8 | 1.6 | 0.65 (0.08–5.31) | |
| Education | ||||||||
| < High school | 235 | 56.2 | 38 | 41.3 | 273 | 53.5 | 1.00 (ref) | 0.03 |
| High school | 155 | 37.1 | 45 | 48.9 | 200 | 39.2 | 1.80 (1.11–2.89) | |
| > High school | 28 | 6.7 | 9 | 9.8 | 37 | 7.3 | 1.99 (0.87–4.54) | |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| Single | 83 | 19.9 | 23 | 25.0 | 106 | 20.8 | 1.00 (ref) | 0.17 |
| Live with spouse/partner | 294 | 70.3 | 65 | 70.7 | 359 | 70.4 | 0.80 (0.47–1.36) | |
| Divorced/Separate/Widow | 41 | 9.8 | 4 | 4.3 | 45 | 8.8 | 0.35 (0.11–1.09) | |
| Employment | ||||||||
| Unemployed | 112 | 26.8 | 23 | 25.0 | 135 | 26.5 | 1.00 (ref) | 0.35 |
| Freelancer | 222 | 53.0 | 47 | 51.1 | 269 | 52.8 | 1.03 (0.60–1.78) | |
| Stable jobs | 42 | 10.1 | 7 | 7.6 | 49 | 9.6 | 0.81 (0.32–2.03) | |
| Other jobs | 42 | 10.1 | 15 | 16.3 | 57 | 11.2 | 1.74 (0.83–3.65) | |
OR: Odds ratio; ref: reference