Research Article

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

Table 5

Logistic regression for LMAS-14.

VariablesOR95% CI value

Stress level0.5420.3480.8450.007
Smoking0.5060.2970.8640.013

Omnibus test value < 0.001; Hosmer-Lemeshow test value = 0.760; Nagelkerke’s 2 = 0.185; overall predicted percentage = 72.2%. Independent variables: age, number of antihypertensive pills, number of secondary effects, BMI, employment, adding salt to food at the table, food evaluation, frequency of physician’s consultation, stress level, health coverage, crowding index, smoking, and estimated INTERSALT.