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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 4.

Mediation analysis of the effect of adherence self-efficacy on the relationship of influence of side effect and adherence to ART

Model 1: (X → M) Model 2: (X → Y) Model 3: (X, M → Y)



DV=Self-efficacy
(a)
DV=Adherence
(c)
DV=Adherence
(c′) (b)
Age −0.027 (0.013)* 0.016 (0.006)* 0.017 (0.006)**
Gender −0.112 (0.322) 0.038 (0.138) 0.048 (0.140)
Ethnicity −0.103 (0.307) −0.537 (0.140) −0.566 (0.143)***
Residence 0.770 (0.381)* −0.347 (0.154)* −0.380 (0.158)*
Year of formal schooling 0.178 (0.052)** 0.053 (0.022)** 0.044 (0.023)
Monthly household income 0.298 (0.136)* −0.134 (0.053)* −0.157 (0.054)**
Drug use −0.793 (0.429) −0.303 (0.169) −0.262 (0.171)
Depressive symptoms −0.194 (0.026)*** 0.000 (0.011)*** 0.011 (0.012)
Perceived HIV stigma 0.158 (0.042)*** −0.048 (0.019)*** −0.063 (0.019)**
Side effect severity −0.692 (0.174)*** −0.340 (0.065)*** −0.300 (0.066)***
Adherence self-efficacy - - 0.054 (0.009)***
Sobel test, z-value −3.315 (0.011)***

Note: Numbers in the cells are unstandardized coefficients (SE).

X: Influence of side effect; M: Adherence self-efficacy; Y: Adherence to ART.

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001.