A randomized controlled trial of interventions to enhance patient-physician partnership, patient adherence and high blood pressure control among ethnic minorities and poor persons: study protocol NCT00123045

Table 5 Patient-Physician Partnership Study: Baseline Adherence, Participatory Decision Making and Satisfaction for 279 Patients

Characteristic	No. of Patients (%)	Mean (standard deviation)
Hill-Bone Scale
Sodium subscale		5.4 (1.6)
Appointment subscale		2.7 (1.0)
Medication subscale		10.3 (2.0)
Total		18.4 (3.0)
Medication non-adherence*	98 (36.4)
Participatory Decision Making		69.7 (23.3)
Satisfaction:
Satisfied with visit
Neutral to strongly disagree	4 (1.5)
Agree	139 (50.9)
Strongly agree	130 (47.6)
Would recommend MD
Neutral or disagree	3 (1.1)
Agree	187 (68.5)
Strongly agree	83 (30.4)

*Medication non-adherence (Morisky) = a positive response to at least one of four questions regarding forgetting to take medications, stopping medications because of feeling better, stopping medications because of feeling worse, and missing medications because of carelessness.
** Participatory Decision-Making is measured using patient ratings of physicians' likelihood of giving the patient choice, control, responsibility in decision-making and scored on a 0–100 point scale.

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