Table 1.

Stendal adherence to medication score (SAMS).

		for all	for most	for half	for some	for none
		0	1	2	3	4
1	Do you know the reason for taking your medication?
2	Do you know the dosages of your medication?
3	Are you familiar with the timing for taking the medication?
		all	most	half	some	none
		0	1	2	3	4
4	Do you take your medication regularly?
5	Do you know the names of medications you are taking?
		never	rare	sometimes	often	mostly
		0	1	2	3	4
6	Do you forget to take your medication?
7	Are you untroubled about taking the medication?
8	Do you stop taking your medication when you feel better?
9	Do you stop taking your medication if you sometimes feel worse after taking the medication?
10	Do you take any wrong or other/unprescribed medications (such as those of your partner)?
	If you think you have side effects due to of the medications (such as tremors, nausea etc.)
11	- do you reduce the dose without consulting a doctor?
12	- do you not take the medication for a while, i.e. take a break?
13	If you feel you have to take too many, do you stop taking those medications you consider to be less important than the others without consulting your doctor?
	If you forget or omit your medication, do you forget it …
14	in the morning?
15	at noon?
16	in the evening?
17	Do you deliberately not take medications you do not consider important, but take the rest?
18	If you take medication as a syringe or a weekly tablet, have you ever forgotten it?