Table 3.
Patient responses to the Medication Compliance Questionnaire (MCQ)
| Questions | Responses n (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Sometimes | Often | Always | |
| How often do you forget to take your medicine? | 98 (50.3) | 69 (35.4) | 19 (9.7) | 9 (4.6) |
| How often do you decide not to take your medicine? | 143 (73.3) | 32 (16.4) | 13 (6.7) | 7 (3.6) |
| How often do you miss taking your medicine because you feel better? | 151 (77.4) | 30 (15.4) | 6 (3.1) | 8 (4.1) |
| How often do you decide to take less of your medicine? | 161 (82.6) | 28 (14.4) | 4 (2.0) | 2 (1.0) |
| How often do you stop taking your medicine because you feel sick due to side effects of the medicine? | 176 (90.3) | 12 (6.1) | 5 (2.6) | 2 (1.0) |
| How often do you forget to bring along your medicine when you travel away from home? | 143 (73.3) | 34 (17.5) | 12 (6.1) | 6 (3.1) |
| How often do you not take your medicine because you run out of it at home? | 120 (61.5) | 53 (27.2) | 20 (10.3) | 2 (1.0) |
According to the Likert scale, “Never” = 4, “Sometimes” = 3, “Often” = 2, “Always” = 1