Table 2.
Possible predictors for patients nonpersistent for reasons other than disease progression
| Possible Predictors | Persistence | Non-persistence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean or N | SD or % | Mean or N | SD or % | |
| Age (in years) | 66.4 | 11.5 | 66.2 | 10.9 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27.6 | 5.7 | 27.6 | 4.8 |
| Number of concomitant medications | 2.1 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
| ECOG | ||||
| 0 | 56 | 41.8 | 13 | 50.0 |
| 1 | 62 | 46.3 | 10 | 38.5 |
| 2 | 11 | 8.2 | 3 | 11.5 |
| 3 | 4 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Time from diagnosis to therapy (in years) | 3.1 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 4.5 |
| Adverse events within the first 30 days | ||||
| No | 123 | 91.8 | 18 | 69.2 |
| Yes | 11 | 8.2 | 8 | 30.8 |
| Do you sometimes forget to take your medicine? | ||||
| No | 115 | 90.5 | 22 | 91.7 |
| Yes | 12 | 9.5 | 2 | 8.3 |
| Do you take all your medicine always at the same time? | ||||
| No | 11 | 8.7 | 2 | 8.3 |
| Yes | 115 | 91.3 | 22 | 91.7 |
| Do you sometimes not take your medicine if you feel good? | ||||
| No | 115 | 92.7 | 23 | 95.8 |
| Yes | 9 | 7.3 | 1 | 4.2 |
| Do you not take your medicine at all if you feel worse due to illness? | ||||
| No | 121 | 96.0 | 22 | 91.7 |
| Yes | 5 | 4.0 | 2 | 8.3 |
| On how many days in the past 30 days did you not take/forget to take your medicine? | ||||
| 0 | 109 | 93.2 | 20 | 87.0 |
| 1–10 | 8 | 6.8 | 3 | 13.0 |
| How satisfied were you with the information provided regarding endocrine treatment and its side effects? | ||||
| Very satisfied | 45 | 40.5 | 6 | 25.0 |
| Satisfied | 46 | 41.4 | 11 | 45.8 |
| Neither satisfied nor unsatisfied | 8 | 7.2 | 5 | 20.8 |
| Unsatisfied | 8 | 7.2 | 1 | 4.2 |
| Very unsatisfied | 2 | 1.8 | 1 | 4.2 |
| Not applicable | 2 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 |