Table 3.

Distribution of study participants based on factors associated with level of compliance to drugs in the first visit

Variables	Category	Level of score			P
		High	Medium	Low
Gender	Male	26	6	0	0.558
	Female	56	10	2
Knowledge about the disease	Yes	56	9	1	0.578
	Partly know	26	7	1
Who brings medicines	Self	31	7	0	0.484
	Others	51	9	2
Who pay medicines	Self	35	8	0	0.400
	others	47	8	2
Intake of medicines	Self	67	14	1	0.423
	others	15	2	1
Forgotten	No	71	5	0	<0.001
	Yes	11	11	2
Purposely avoided	No	76	12	1	0.024
	Yes	6	4	1
Taken medicine twice	No	81	14	1	<0.001
	Yes	1	2	1