Table 6.

Patients’ perception of their own ability to self-administer medication in hospital.

	n	Ability to self-administer medication in hospital			p-valued
		Self-administrationa	Partial helpb	Full helpc
Chronic medication intake at home (%)
Yes	85	80.0	14.1	5.9	0.896
No	26	80.8	3.8	15.4

^aSelf-administration: patients able to self-administer their medication completely independently. ^bPartial help: self-administer them independent if they got some help in for example filling their medication box.

^cFull help: be fully dependent on the administration of medication by nurses.

^dMann–Whitney test.