Table 2 Patient indicators of adherence and clinic attendance across health facilities in four countries based on exit interviews and record review
| Â | Kenya | Rwanda | Uganda | Ethiopia | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# patients interviewed | 373 | 285 | 408 | 565 | 1631 |
% with self reported full adherence (+/- 1.96*SE) | 96.0 (2.0) | 90.9 (3.3) | 92.2 (2.6) | 96.3 (1.6) | 94.2 (1.1) |
# records counted for dispensed medicine | 936 | 1279 | 1693 | 1982 | 5890 |
Percentage of days covered (+/- 1.96*SE) | 81.6 (1.7) | 95.1 (0.5) | 81.8 (0.7) | 93.0 (0.6) | 91.1 (0.4) |
# records counted for gap in medicine | 936 | 1154 | 1693 | 1982 | 5765 |
% patients with gap of 30 days or more (+/- 1.96*SE) | 25.1 (2.8) | 4.0 (1.1) | 18.1 (1.8) | 10.2 (1.3) | 13.7 (0.9) |
# records checked for attending next appointment | 1998 | 2609 | 1693 | 1982 | 8282 |
% attended on or before next appointment (+/- 1.96*SE) | 78.3 (1.8) | 78.4 (1.6) | 71.7 (2.2) | 73.5 (1.9) | 75.8 (0.9) |
% attended within 3 days of appointment (+/- 1.96*SE) | -- | 93.4 (1.0) | 76.3 (2.0) | 87.9 (0.1) | 87.1 (0.7) |
% attended within 30 days of appointment (+/- 1.96*SE) | 96.3 (0.8)* | 97.8 (0.6) | 86.7 (1.6) | 94.6 (1.0) | 94.4 (0.5) |