Factors Predicting the Adherence to the Therapy of Italian IBD Patients

Table 2

Type of drugs and reported compliance according to MMAS-8.

Drug class	Number of users	Grade compliance	N (%)
Oral 5-ASA	128	Low	48 (37.5)
		Medium–high	80 (62.5)
Immunomodulators	25	Low	7 (28)
		Medium–high	18 (72)
Oral steroids	15	Low	6 (40)
		Medium–high	9 (60)
Injectable biologics	16	Low	1 (6.3)
		Medium–high	15 (93.7)
Intravenous biologics	23	Low	1 (4.4)
		Medium–high	22 (95.6)

Low adherence (<6 points); medium–high adherence (6.1 to 8); N = numbers; MMAS-8 = modified Morisky Adherence Scale; 5-ASA = 5-aminosalicylic acid; the use of MMAS is protected by US copyright laws. Permission for use is required. Licensure agreement is available from Donald E. Morisky, ScD, ScM, MSPH, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.