Table 3.

Relationship between characteristics of patients and PEPPI score

Variable	Median [Q1–Q3]	P valuea
Gender
Male	20.0 [18.0–25.0]	0.035c
Female	20.0 [17.0–23.0]
Age (year)
Less than 65	20.0 [17.0–23.0]	0.846c
65 or more	20.0 [16.0–25.0]
Residency
City	21.0 [18.0–24.0]	<0.010c
Village or refugee camp	19.0 [15.0–23.0]
Employment
Employed	20.0 [18.0–24.2]	0.054c
Unemployed	20.0 [16.0–23.0]
BMI
Normal weight	22.0 [17.0–24.0]	0.682c
Overweight or obese	20.0 [17.0–24.0]
Marital status
Married	20.0 [17.3–24.7]	0.032c
Unmarried	19.0 [15.0–23.0]
Monthly income (NIS)b
Low (less than 2000)	18.0 [15.0–23.0]	<0.001c
Moderate to high income (≥2000)	20.0 [18.0–24.0]
Education level
Below university education level	20.0 [17.0–23.0]	<0.001c
University education level	22.0 [18.3–25.0]
Hypertension duration
Less than 1 year	20.0 [18.5–22.5]	0.980d
1–3 years	20.0 [17.0–23.3]
4–5 years	20.0 [16.5–23.5]
5 years or more	20.0 [17.0–24.0]
Therapy type
Monotherapy	20.0 [18.0–24.0]	0.456c
Multi therapy	20.0 [16.0–24.0]
Total number of chronic diseases
1 or less	20.0 [17.0–23.0]	0.402d
2	21.0 [17.0–25.0]
3 or more	13.0 [11.0–27.5]
Total number of medications
Less than 4	20.0 [17.0–23.5]	0.765c
4 or more	20.0 [17.0–24.0]

Perceived Efficacy in Patient-Physician Interaction Questionnaire (PEPPI) is range of 5 to 25; higher scores indicate that the participant has higher self-efficacy in patient-physician interactions

NIS New Israeli Shekel; Q1–Q2, lower quartile and the upper quartile

^aP values are bold where they are less than the significance level of 0.05

^b1 Israeli New Shekel equals 0.29 US dollar

^cStatistical significance of the differences determined by the Mann-Whitney U test

^dStatistical significance of the differences determined by the Kruskal-Wallis test