Table 3.
Frequency of non-adherence reasons by medication class.
| Medication class | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Cardiovascular | Pulmonary | Diabetes | Anti-depression | Multiple | |
| N | 2,038 | 133 | 531 | 221 | 685 |
| Intentional non-adherence | 1,306 (64.1) | 102 (76.7) | 346 (65.2) | 174 (78.7) | 467 (68.2) |
| Inconvenient to take | 434 (21.3) | 44 (33.1) | 139 (26.2) | 70 (31.7) | 183 (26.7) |
| Would not do any good-did not take | 304 (14.9) | 30 (22.6) | 77 (14.5) | 47 (21.3) | 107 (15.6) |
| Medication made you feel bad-did not take | 550 (27.0) | 54 (40.6) | 139 (26.2) | 86 (38.9) | 203 (29.6) |
| Cannot carry out normal activities | 481 (23.6) | 37 (27.8) | 127 (23.9) | 79 (35.7) | 182 (26.6) |
| Thought you might become addicted | 295 (14.5) | 30 (22.6) | 73 (13.7) | 56 (25.3) | 120 (17.5) |
| Do not like to take medicine | 251 (12.3) | 21 (15.8) | 38 (7.2) | 33 (14.9) | 67 (9.8) |
| Trying to do without taking medications | 681 (33.4) | 63 (47.4) | 154 (29.0) | 107 (48.4) | 232 (33.9) |
| Other reasons for not taking medications | 118 (5.8) | 7 (5.3) | 28 (5.3) | 14 (6.3) | 39 (5.7) |
| Unintentional non-adherence | 1,786 (87.6) | 118 (88.7) | 463 (87.2) | 193 (87.3) | 597 (87.2) |
| In a hurry, too busy, forgot to take | 1,509 (74.0) | 99 (74.4) | 376 (70.8) | 154 (69.7) | 483 (70.5) |
| No money to purchase medication | 608 (29.8) | 51 (38.3) | 194 (36.5) | 91 (41.2) | 264 (38.5) |
| Did not have medication available | 756 (37.1) | 56 (42.1) | 213 (40.1) | 91 (41.2) | 284 (41.5) |
| Intentional + Unintentional non-adherence | 1,054 (51.7) | 87 (65.4) | 278 (52.4) | 146 (66.1) | 379 (55.3) |
Participants could be in more than one medication class.