Acceptability of Mobile Phone Technology for Medication Adherence Interventions among HIV-Positive Patients at an Urban Clinic

Table 3

Response to the AACTG Adherence Instrument among participants who reported ever missing a dose of HIV medication (expressed in percentages).

List of reasons (𝑛=25)	Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Often
Simply forgot	8	40	52	0
Fell asleep/slept through dosage	16	32	52	0
Away from home (𝑛=23)	30	22	39	9
Had a change in daily routine	36	20	40	4
Fell ill or sick	42	23	31	4
Felt depressed/overwhelmed	52	12	28	8
Did not want others to notice me taking pills	68	8	12	12
Had too many pills to take	68	8	24	0
Wanted to avoid side effects	64	16	20	0
Had problems taking meds at specific time	48	32	20	0
Felt drug was toxic or harmful	76	12	12	0