Psychological perspective of medication adherence in transplantation

Table 1 Demographic data (n = 74 kidney transplant responders)

Years since transplantation procedure, mean ± SD (range)	5.39 ± 3.74 (1.00-14.00)
Education
Basic	36%
High school	56%
University	8%
Occupation
Employed	31.17%
Unemployed	56.82%
Retired	12.01%

Table 2 Linear model of predictors sex, age, and years since transplant on basel assessment of adherence to immunosuppressive medication instrument total score

	B	SE B (SE)	β	P
Constant	-0.98 (-3.44 to 1.47)	1.13	0.00	0.39
Sex	1.53 (0.33 to 2.74)	0.55	0.75	0.01
Age	0.01 (-0.03 to 0.05)	0.02	0.14	0.58
YT	0.15 (0.03 to 0.27)	0.06	0.58	0.01

YT: Years since transplant procedure; Linear model with 95% bias corrected and accelerated confidence intervals (in parentheses).

Table 3 Linear model of temperament predictors on basel assessment of adherence to immunosuppressive medication instrument total score

	B	SE B (SE)	β	P
Constant	0.87 (-0.14 to 1.88)	0.39	0.00	0.06
CT	0.51 (0.10 to 0.93)	0.16	1.92	0.02
IT	-0.17 (-0.58 to 0.23)	0.16	-0.48	0.32
AT	-0.28 (-0.46 to -0.09)	0.07	-1.44	0.01

CT: Cyclothymic temperament; IT: Irritable temperament; AT: Anxious temperament; Linear model with 95% bias corrected and accelerated confidence intervals (in parentheses).