Adherence to treatment and harmful effects of medication shortages in the context of severe crises: scale validation and correlates

Table 5 Multivariable analysis of the Harmful Impact of Medication Shortage scale

Model 1: Linear regression taking into account socioeconomic status and efforts to find the needed medication as independent variables
Factor	Unstandardized beta	Standardized beta	95% CI	P-value
Number of medications taken daily taken daily (if chronic disease)	− 1.174	− 0.274	− 2.389; 0.40	0.058
Number of visited pharmacies to find the needed medications	0.392	0.268	0.092; 0.692	0.011
Household crowding index	4.383	0.4.63	2.192; 6.574	< 0.001

Model 2: Linear regression taking into account chronic disease status and adherence to treatment as independent variables
Factor	Unstandardized beta	Standardized beta	95% CI	P-value
Heart disease vs. other disease	− 6.059	− 0.435	− 9.747; − 2.373	0.002
Chronic lung disease vs. other disease	− 5.386	− 0.278	− 10.016; − 0.756	0.024
LMAS scale	0.755	0.671	0.553; 0.957	< 0.001

Variables entered: number of medications taken daily; number of visited pharmacies to find the needed medications; Lebanese Medication Adherence Scale; gender; marital status; household crowding index; age (years)

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