Missed Doses and Missed Appointments: Adherence to ART among Adult Patients in Uganda

Table 2

Factors linked to the three measures of adherence in this study.

Adherence measure	Independent variables	No	Yes	OR	𝑃 value
		Freq. (%)	Freq. (%)	(95% CI limits)
(1) Ever run out of medication(𝑁=444)		418 (94.1)	26 (5.9)
	Gender (𝑁=439)
	Male	122 (92.4)	10 (7.6)	0.58 (0.24–1.46)	0.296
	Female	239 (95.4)	14 (4.6)
	Age (𝑁=43)
	16–39	205 (96.61)	14 (6.39)		0.656
	40–50	157 (95.15)	8 (4.85)
	>50	53 (96.36)	2 (3.64)
	Educational level (𝑁=419)
	Below primary	56 (94.92)	3 (5.08)		0.629
	Primary	167 (95.98)	7 (4.02)
	Secondary	145 (94.16)	9 (5.84)
	University	29 (90.63)	3 (9.38)
(2) Doses missed in the last week (𝑁=763)		739 (96.9)	24 (3.1)
	Gender (𝑁=760)
	Male	222 (95.7)	10 (4.3)	0.60 (0.25–1.49)	0.228
	Female	514 (97.3)	14 (2.7)
	Age (𝑁=760)
	16–39	370 (96.4)	14 (3.6)		0.694
	40–50	273 (97.2)	8 (2.8)
	>50	93 (97.9)	2 (2.1)
	Disclosed HIV status to sexual partner (𝑁=714)
	No	426 (96.4)	16 (3.6)	0.60 (0.21–1.66)	0.402
	Yes	266 (97.8)	6 (2.2)
	Educational level (𝑁=419)
	Below primary	55 (93.22)	4 (6.78)		0.450
	Primary	170 (97.70)	4 (2.30)
	Secondary	148 (96.10)	6 (3.90)
	University	31 (96.88)	1 (3.13)
(3) Appointments missed in the past 3 months (𝑁=763)		706 (92.5)	57(7.5)
	Gender (𝑁=760)
	Male	217 (93.5)	15 (6.5)	1.00 (0.51–1.96)	0.989
	Female	494 (93.6)	34 (6.4)
	Disclosed HIV status to sexual partner (𝑁=717)
	No	415 (93.0)	31 (7.0)	0.95 (0.50–1.80)	0.995
	Yes	253 (93.4)	18 (6.6)
	Age (𝑁=760)
	16–39	363 (94.5)	21 (5.5)		0.540
	40–50	260 (92.5)	21 (7.5)
	>50	88 (92.6)	7 (7.4)
	Educational level (𝑁=419)
	Below Primary  school	56 (94.92)	3 (5.08)		0.079
	Primary	163 (93.68)	11 (6.32)
	Secondary	143 (92.86)	11 (7.14)
	University	26 (81.25)	6 (18.75)

∗The differences in 𝑁 are due to nonresponse.