Medication Nonadherence and Associated Factors among Heart Failure Patients at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Binary logistic regression analysis of factors associated with medication nonadherence among HF patients at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, northwest Ethiopia.

Variables	HF medication adherence		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	value
	Nonadherent	Adherent
Age (in years)
<45	22	83	0.766 (0.342, 0.910)	0.929 (0.425, 2.031)	0.884
≥45	36	104	1	1
Sex
Female	38	125	0.942 (0.506, 1.754)	1.030 (0.493, 2.149)	0.937
Male	20	62	1	1
Place of residence
Rural	28	86	1.096 (0.608, 1.977)	1.526 (0.738, 3.157)	0.254
Urban	30	101	1	1
Marital status
Unmarried	35	85	1.826 (1.002, 3.326)	2.638 (1.279, 5.443)	0.009
Married	23	102	1	1
Educational level					0.183
No formal education	35	114	1.623 (0.665, 3.961)	1.824 (0.602, 5.522)	0.288
Primary school [1–8]	16	36	2.349 (0.864, 6.384)	2,786 (0.924, 8.394)	0.69
High school and above	7	37	1	1
Chronic disease comorbidity
Yes	37	72	2.814 (1.527, 5.185)	2.761 (1.364, 5.589)	0.005
No	21	115	1	1
Duration since started to take HF medications					0.930
<5 years	37	121	1	1
5-10	15	50	0.800 (0.266, 2.407)	1.105 (0.323, 3.775)	0.874
>10 years	6	16	1.226 (0.448, 3.360)	1.051 (0.347, 3.185)	0.930
Number of medications the patients were taking
Three or more types of drugs	39	74	3.134 (1.683,5.837)	2.805 (1.404, 5.604)	0.003
Less than three types of drugs	19	113	1	1