Patient Related Factors Affecting Adherence to Antimalarial Medication in an Urban Estate in Ghana

Table 3

Relationship between adherence and beliefs on malaria and its treatment.

Belief	Response	Adherent	Partially adherent	Nonadherent	value
Prayers instead of medicine that I have taken healed me	Agree/strongly agree	41	34	9
	Uncertain	28	17	12	0.464	0.072
	Disagree/strongly disagree	103	38	18
Natural remedies are safer than medicines	Agree/strongly agree	40	29	20
	Uncertain	36	26	14	0.000	0.345
	Disagree/strongly disagree	96	34	5
People who take medicines can stop their treatment for a while every now and again	Agree/strongly agree	10	10	10
	Uncertain	10	5	3	0.458	0.458
	Disagree/strongly disagree	152	74	26
Most medicines including malaria medicines are addictive	Agree/strongly agree	15	13	6
	Uncertain	46	24	11	0.554	0.061
	Disagree/strongly disagree	111	52	22
Medicines do more harm than good	Agree/strongly agree	41	25	15
	Uncertain	24	11	4	0.465	0.054
	Disagree/strongly disagree	107	53	20
All medicines are poisons	Agree/strongly agree	37	19	5
	Uncertain	16	15	9	0.498	0.080
	Disagree/strongly disagree	119	55	25
Prescribers place too much trust on medicines	Agree/strongly agree	73	54	24	0.006	0.570
	Uncertain	25	4	1
	Disagree/strongly disagree	74	31	14
If prescribers had more time with patients they will prescribe fewer medicines	Agree/strongly agree	73	54	24
	Uncertain	25	4	1	0.423	0.059
	Disagree/strongly disagree	74	31	14