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

Table 2

Hypertension characteristics.

Variable	Items	Mean/	SD/%
Mean systolic blood pressure		132.94	15.36
Mean diastolic blood pressure		80.75	12.02
Disease duration		9.45	7.05
Number of antihypertensive pills per day		1.97	1.06
Total number of pills per day		5.16	2.99
Comorbidities	No	127	31.7
	Yes	274	68.3
Secondary effects	None	240	60.5
	At least one	157	39.5
Hypertension control	Uncontrolled hypertension	141	45.1
	Controlled hypertension	263	54.9
MMAS-8	Nonadherent	56	13.9
	Adherent	348	86.1
LMAS-14	Nonadherent	71	17.6
	Adherent	333	82.4