Table 4.
Correlation between adherence and health-related quality-of-life measures.
| Correlation analyses | Correlation estimate | p valuea |
|---|---|---|
| Adherence (MMAS-8 score) and VAS score | (N = 1603) | |
| Spearman correlation | −0.081 | 0.001b |
| Kendall correlation | −0.061 | 0.001 |
| Adherence (MMAS-8 score) and EQ-5D-3L index value | (N = 1616) | |
| Spearman correlation | −0.085 | 0.001 |
| Kendall correlation | −0.065 | 0.001 |
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MMAS-8 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale
aFor hypothesis contrast, null hypothesis was correlation = 0 and alternative hypothesis was correlation different from 0
bp value for Spearman correlation could not be computed exact due to ties