Table 3.
Association between responses to the rPATDcog and number of medications
| Survey item response category | Kruskal–Wallis P value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Maybe | No | ||||||
| Number of medications | Number of medications | Number of medications | ||||||
| N | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| 1. Do you think you take too many medicines? | 547 | 7.6 | 2.2 | 7.2 | 2.4 | 6.7 | 1.9 | <0.001 |
| 2. Do you think that you are taking any medications that you don’t need anymore? | 545 | 7.1 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 2.3 | 6.9 | 2.1 | 0.09 |
| 3. Do you get stressed if changes are made to your medicines? | 550 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 7.1 | 2.3 | 6.9 | 2.0 | 0.06 |
| 4. Have you had a bad experience in the past when a medicine was stopped? | 546 | 8.0 | 2.6 | 7.9 | 2.9 | 6.8 | 1.9 | <0.001 |
| 5. Do you know what medicines you take? | 546 | 7.0 | 2.1 | NA | NA | 7.2 | 2.3 | 0.63 |
| 6. If your doctor said it was possible, would you stop one of your medicines? | 549 | 7.0 | 2.1 | 7.4 | 2.6 | 7.0 | 2.1 | 0.79 |
| 7. Overall, are you satisfied with your medicines? | 545 | 7.0 | 2.1 | 7.2 | 2.2 | 7.9 | 2.5 | 0.14 |