Self-Reported Nonadherence Predicts Changes of Medication after Discharge from Hospital in People with Parkinson’s Disease
Table 4
Characteristics of patients with and without changes in medication.
Characteristic
No change in medication
Change by physician
Change by patient
N
%
N
%
N
%
Gender
Female
36a
41.4
7a
26.9
6a
50.0
0.30
Male
51a
58.6
19a
73.1
6a
50.0
Marital status
Married
70a
81.4
20a
80.0
9a
75.0
0.83
Divorced/widowed
12a
14.0
4a
16.0
3a
25.0
Single
4a
4.7
1a
4.0
0
0.0
Educational level
Low
18a
20.9
7a
28.0
4a
33.3
0.13
Middle
38a
44.2
5a
20.0
6a
50.0
High
30a
34.9
13a
52.0
2a
16.7
Employment status
Pensioned
80a
92.0
23a
88.5
11a
91.7
0.88
Employed
6a
6.9
2a
7.7
1a
8.3
Unemployed
1a
1.1
1a
3.8
02
0.0
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
Age (yr)
70.4a
7.2
68.9a
10.4
69.5a
7.4
0.71
H&Y stage (median, IQR)
2.5 a
1
3.0 a
0.5
2.5 a
1.0
MDS-UPDRS III
22.7a
10.2
28.0a
13.6
27.3a
10.2
0.06
LEDD (mg)
575.0a
343.4
620.9a
302.1
763.3a
446.2
0.23
Disease duration (yr)
8.2a
5.2
7.9a
5.8
7.9a
4.1
0.94
NMSQ
10.6a
4.6
11.2a
5.8
9.3a
4.8
0.54
MoCA
23.5a
2.9
23.6a
3.0
22.5a
3.4
0.56
BDI-II
12.2a
8.7
12.7a
9.5
14.2a
8.4
0.77
SAMS total
5.1a
5.3
6.8a
5.1
14.5b
11.9
<0.001
SAMS subscore missing knowledge
0.4a
0.8
0.5a
0.7
0.7a
0.8
0.36
SAMS subscore modification
0.1a
0.2
0.1a
0.2
0.7b
1.2
<0.001
SAMS subscore forgetting
0.4a
0.5
0.5a
0.4
1.3b
1.1
<0.001
Values in the same row and subtable where the subscripts are not identical differ greatly at p < 0.05 in the two-sided test for equality for column portions. With the help of the Bonferroni correction, the tests are adapted to all pairwise comparisons within a line of the innermost subtable.
