Research Article

A New Lebanese Medication Adherence Scale: Validation in Lebanese Hypertensive Adults

Table 4

Logistic regression for hypertension control.

VariablesExp ()95% CI value

Physical activity duration0.9980.9961.0000.063
Disease duration0.9140.8510.9820.014
Number of comorbidities0.6430.4180.9890.044
LMAS-141.2171.0691.3860.003

Omnibus test value < 0.001; Hosmer-Lemeshow test value = 0.491; Nagelkerke’s 2 = 0.215; overall predicted percentage = 69.6%. Independent variables: age, physical activity duration, disease duration, number of comorbidities, number of secondary effects symptoms, BMI, MMAS-8, LMAS_14, estimated INTERSALT, educational level, frequency of physician’s consultation, and health coverage.