Table 5.

Participants who could answer purpose of all their medications correctly - Multivariate logistic regression.

Variables	Wald	Adjusted OR	Confidence interval	p-value
Gender (Ref = Male)
Female	0.713	1.625	0.527-5.011	0.399
Age (Ref = 16-35 years)	10.924			0.004
36-55 years	4.419	3.256	1.083-9.786	0.036
≥56 years	10.923	13.723	2.903-64.863	0.001
Level of education (Ref = graduated from university)	3.916			0.271
HSC passed	0.036	0.902	0.310-2.620	0.849
SSC passed	0.045	0.868	0.235-3.203	0.831
<10 years of schooling / no school	3.485	0.195	0.035-1.085	0.062
Language proficiency (Ref = can read English)
Cannot read English	0.011	1.084	0.239-4.920	0.917
Area of residence (Ref = urban)
Rural	2.385	0.472	0.182-1.224	0.122
Occupation (Ref = employed)	5.503			0.064
Unemployed	2.702	3.025	0.808-11.325	0.100
Retired	1.582	0.424	0.111-1.616	0.209
Number of medicines taken (Ref = 2-3 medicine taking patients)	4.937			0.085
4-5 medicine taking patients	0.594	0.720	0.312-1.660	0.441
≥ 6 medicine taking patients	4.886	0.131	0.022-0.794	0.027
Medication dosing strategies (Ref = self-administered with no particular strategy)	3.462			0.326
Self-administered using pill boxes	0.022	1.082	0.379-3.090	0.883
Self-administered along with daily routines	0.595	1.501	0.535-4.215	0.440
Assistance of a care-giver	1.983	0.290	0.052-1.624	0.159
Level of satisfaction over communication with healthcare provider (Ref = satisfied)
Not satisfied	2.243	0.522	0.223-1.222	0.134

Analysis was conducted using the ENTER method.