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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2018 Apr;22(4):1174–1183. doi: 10.1007/s10461-017-1958-4

Table III.

Proportion of adequate adherence (at least 4 pills reported taken per week via iQS or ACASI, or DBS drug levels of 700 fmol/punch TFV or greater), by adherence method and timepoint; and discordance of adequate adherence between adherence measurement method by timepoint

Adequate
adherence
N (%)
iQS
Kappa (CI; p-
value)
ACASI
Kappa (CI; p-
value)
DBS
Kappa (CI; p-
value)
iQS Timepoint 1 110 (86.6) --- 0.73 (0.56–0.90; 0.10) 0.27 (0.14–0.39; <0.001*)
Timepoint 2 61 (69.3) --- 0.71 (0.53–0.89; 0.32) 0.19 (0.04–0.34; <0.001*)
ACASI Timepoint 1 138 (82.6) 0.73 (0.56–0.90; 0.10) --- 0.30 (0.19–0.40; <0001*)
Timepoint 2 100 (74.1) 0.71 (0.53–0.89; 0.32) --- 0.27 (0.16–0.39; <0.0001*)
DBS Timepoint 1 73 (45.9) 0.27 (0.14–0.39; <0.001*) 0.30 (0.19–0.40; <0001*) ---
Timepoint 2 47 (38.8) 0.19 (0.04–0.34; <0.001*) 0.27 (0.16–0.39; <0.0001*) ---
*

p-value<0.001