Table 5.

Attribute inquiry examples (or patient interview questions) for practitioners relevant to the patient’s medication experience.

Attribute	Specific Inquiry Examples (Patient Interview Questions)
Ambivalence	How is both wanting to take medicine but not wanting to take medication because of personal and socio-cultural issues expressed?
Vulnerability	What feelings about medications are involved? (i.e., hope/hopelessness, self) What systems or power dynamics complicate their situation such as the medical system, access to treatment, trust in provider to help them understand their health?
Socially Constructed	How has the patient’s sociocultural reality been constructed such as influence of culture, environment, media, family and friends, and issues based on past events and policy?
Pragmatic	What are the concrete aspects of this person’s reality for medication-taking?
Contextual and Nuanced	How does the context and nuances of the patient’s social/cultural/historical/psychological/physical illness inform the patient perspective and decisions made?
Active Ongoing Process	How does the patient seem to be evaluating the use of medications such as feelings of stigma, routines, if medication is needed, implications for social life and cost?