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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2018 Mar 12;200:51–59. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2018.03.007

Table 1.

Medication questions used to characterize adherence status stratified by intentional and unintentional reasons.

Baseline Medication Adherence Status Definition/Assessment
Intentional Non-adherence Answered ‘yes’ to any of the following on the exam 1 medication survey:

  1. Medication was inconvenient to take.

  2. Medication wouldn’t do any good.

  3. Medication made you feel bad.

  4. Can’t carry out normal activities.

  5. Thought you might become addicted.

  6. Don’t like to take medicine.

  7. Trying to do without taking medications.

  8. Other reasons for not taking medication.
Unintentional Non-adherence Answered ‘yes’ to any of the following on the exam 1 medication survey:

  1. In a hurry, too busy, forgot to take medications.

  2. No money to purchase medication.

  3. Did not have medication available.
Both Intentional and Unintentional Non-adherent Answered ‘yes’ to at least one intentional and unintentional non-adherence question above.
Adherent Answered ‘no’ to all medication adherence questions