Medication Adherence and Coping Strategies in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Medication adherence report (MARS).

	Never	Seldom	Sometimes	Often	Always
I forget to take my medication	80 (66.7)	33 (27.2)	5 (4.2)	2 (1.7)	0 (0)
I change dosages	88 (73.3)	21 (17.5)	10 (8.3)	1 (0.8)	0 (0)
I stop taking my medicine for a while	110 (91.7)	4 (3.3)	6 (5.0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
I skip a dosage	106 (88.3)	7 (5.8)	7 (5.8)	0 (0)	0 (0)
I take less drugs than prescribed	95 (79.2)	19 (15.8)	6 (5.0)	0 (0)	0 (0)

Descriptive statistics for medical adherence report (MARS) items. Values are absolute numbers (and percent of total number of participants).