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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2016 Mar 24;28(7):919–926. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1124984

Table 3.

Associations between adherence to ART and psychosocial factors

Variables Total number of patients
using ART (%)
Adherence to ART, n (%)

Nonadherent Adherent
N 2,146 365 (17.6) 1713 (82.4)
Drug use
  No 1783 (83.4) 280 (16.2) 1451 (83.8)**
  Ever used 356 (16.6) 81 (23.8) 259 (76.2)
Depressive symptoms scale, mean (SD) 7.18 (5.75) 7.58 (6.09) 7.03 (5.67)
Perceived HIV stigma scale, mean (SD) 15.55 (3.51) 16.10 (3.31) 15.43 (3.53)**
Side effect severity
  0=Had no side effect 1620 (77.5) 248 (15.4) 1362 (84.6)***
  1=Had side effect with no influence on me 159 (7.6) 33 (21.0) 124 (79.0)
  2=Had side effect with little influence on me 253 (12.1) 60 (24.0) 190 (76.0)
  3=Had side effect with large/severe influence on me 58 (2.8) 22 (39.3) 34 (60.7)
Adherence self-efficacy scale, mean (SD) 45.80 (6.58) 43.94 (7.44) 46.22 (6.26)***

Note:

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001.