Table 2.
Level of adherence to antipsychotic medications among schizophrenia patients.
| Variable | n (%) | Adherence, 113 (83.7) | Nonadherence, 22 (16.3) | p value | Correlation between chosen study variables | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||
| Adherence (1) | |||||||||
| Adherence | 113 (83.7) | 113 (100) | 0 | <0.001 | 1 | ||||
| Nonadherence | 22 (16.3) | 0 | 22 (100) | ||||||
| Insight for psychosis (2) | |||||||||
| Good | 101 (74.8) | 84 (83.2) | 17 (16.8) | 0.772 | 0.02 | 1 | |||
| Poor | 34 (25.2) | 29 (85.3) | 5 (14.7) | ||||||
| Attitude towards typical antipsychotics (3) | |||||||||
| Negative | 38 (28.2) | 33 (86.8) | 5 (13.2) | 0.537 | -0.35∗ | -0.13 | 1 | ||
| Positive | 97 (71.5) | 80 (82.5) | 17 (15.5) | ||||||
| Satisfaction with medication (mean, SD) (4) | 3.7 (±1.0) | 3.6 (±1.0) | 3.9 (±1.1) | 0.381 | -0.30∗ | -0.19∗ | 0.33∗ | 1 | |
| Satisfaction about health workers' explanation of typical antipsychotics use and side effects (5) | 2.5 (±1.3) | 2.6 (±1.3) | 2.4 (±1.4) | 0.597 | -0.15 | -0.04 | 0.15 | 0.40∗ | 1 |