Table 2.

Hypertensive patients' adherence to medication in deprived rural areas

Medication adherence	Mean Rank	SD
1. Do you sometimes forget to take your hypertensive pills?	0.70	0.46
2. People sometimes miss taking their medications for reasons other than forgetting. Thinking over the past two weeks, were there any days when you did not take your hypertensive medicine?	0.68	0.47
3. Have you ever cut back or stopped taking your medication without telling your doctor, because you felt worse when you took it?	0.64	0.48
4. When you travel or leave home, do you sometimes forget to bring along your hypertensive medication?	0.66	0.47
5. Did you take your hypertensive medicine yesterday?	0.69	0.46
6. When you feel like your hypertensive is under control, do you sometimes stop taking your medicine?	0.65	0.48
7. Taking medication every day is a real inconvenience for some people. Do you ever feel hassled about sticking to your hypertensive treatment plan?	0.72	0.45
8. How often do you have difficulty remembering to take all your medications?	0.63	0.48

*Description of the spectrum: Items 1 through 7 adherence1 and non-adherence 0. For item 8, if a patient chooses response “0”, the score is “1” and if they choose response “4”, the score is “0”. Responses “1, 2, 3” are respectively rated as “0.25, 0.50, 0.75”