Table 4.

Participants’ belief about hypertensive medications (n = 605)

Statements	SA	A	U	D	SD	50th Percentile
Necessity Domain	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
My health at present depends on my hypertensive medications	219 (36.2)	297 (49.1)	13 (2.1)	26 (4.3)	50 (8.3)	4
My life would be impossible without my hypertensive medications	23 (3.8)	57 (9.4)	86 (14.2)	187 (30.9)	252 (41.7)	2
Without my hypertensive medications, I would be very ill	75 (12.4)	166 (27.4)	87 (14.4)	131 (21.7)	146 (24.1)	3
My health in the future will depend on my hypertensive medications	123 (20.3)	259 (42.8)	74 (12.2)	72 (11.9)	77 (12.7)	4
My hypertensive medications protect me from becoming worse	254 (42.0)	240 (39.7)	28(4.6)	52 (8.6)	31 (5.1)	4
Concern Domain
Having to take hypertensive medications worries me	167 (27.6)	183 (30.2)	24 (4.0)	88 (14.5)	143 (23.6)	4
I sometimes worry about the long term effects of my hypertension medication	14 (2.3)	63 (10.4)	164 (27.1)	173 (28.6)	191 (31.6)	2
My hypertensive medications disrupts my life	9 (1.5)	38 (6.3)	119 (19.7)	188 (31.1)	251 (41.5)	2
I sometimes worry about becoming too dependent on my hypertensive medications	22 (3.6)	98 (16.2)	202 (33.4)	137 (22.6)	146 (24.1)	3
Cut off			n (%)	Remark
Necessity Domain
Score > 50%			558 (92.2)	“Stronger” belief
Score ≤ 50%			47 (7.8)	“Weaker” belief
Concern Domain
Score > 50%			251 (41.5)	“Stronger” concern
Score ≤ 50%			354 (58.5)	“Weaker” concern
Differential
Score > 0			497 (82.1)	“Stronger” belief about necessity
Score < 0			103 (17.0)	More concern for side effect/adverse effect
Score = 0			5 (0.8)	Equal concern for necessity and side effect

Strongly Agree (SA) = 5, Agree (A) = 4, Uncertain (U) = 3, Disagree (D) = 2, Strongly Disagree (SD) = 1, Maximum obtainable score for the necessity domain = 25; Maximum obtainable score (concern domain) = 20; % score = individual score ÷ maximum obtainable score × 100, Differentials = % score in the necessity domain minus % score in the concern domain, n = number