Table 3.

Partial correlation between HBM constructs controlling for age, gender, and duration of disease.

Variables		1	2	3	4	5	6
1.Treatmen non-compliance	r	-	0.19	0.33	-0.21	-0.449	-0.012
	p-value		<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.820
2.Perceived Severity	r		-	0.539	-0.013	-0.294	0.087
	p-value			<0.0001	0.808	<0.0001	0.099
3.Perceived Susceptibility	r			-	0.067	-0.538	0.339
	p-value				0.206	<0.0001	<0.0001
4.Perceived Benefits	r				-	0.018	0.464
	p-value					0.735	<0.0001
5.Perceived Barriers	r					-	0.111
	p-value						0.036
6.Cues to Action	r						-
	p-value

r: correlation coefficient; p<0.05 is statistically significant.