Treatment adherence and health outcomes in patients with bronchiectasis

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 5 Linear regression model for the association between adherence and 12 month QOL-B Treatment Burden ^a

Independent variables	Estimated co-efficient (SE)	95% CI
Adherence to inhaled antibiotics^b	-0.01 (5.88)	[-11.53; 11.51]
Adherence to other respiratory medicines^b	-4.22 (5.89)	[-15.77; 7.34]
Adherence to airway clearance^b	-15.46** (5.66)	[-26.54; -4.37]
Age	0.79* (0.33)	[0.14; 1.45]
Gender^c	10.87 (6.05)	[-0.72; 24.34]
Baseline FEV₁% predicted	0.16 (0.12)	[-0.09; 0.40]

^an = 60: 6 participant withdrawals, 8 participants with insufficient data to calculate adherence to inhaled antibiotics and 1 participant not prescribed other respiratory medicines.
^bAdherent = 1, non-adherent = 0.
^cMale = 1, female = 0.
**p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.
Adjusted R² = 0.13.

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