Table 1.

Participants’ response to the 9-item modified Morisky Adherence Predictor Scale (n = 605). This table been removed because the authors have not obtained a licence to use the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-8 (MMAS-8). The results presented in this table are available by contacting the authors

A “Yes” response is assigned a score of “1” suggesting non-adherence and “No”/Never, a score of “zero” indicating better adherence behaviour. Complete responses to all the 9-item questions were considered for distribution into the binary categories of adherence versus non-adherence, n number