The impact of HIV/AIDS on compliance with antidepressant treatment in major depressive disorder: A prospective study in a South African private healthcare cohort

Table 2 The effect of illness, gender and age on medicine possession ratio (MPR)

Mean MPR of ADs in MDD patients with/without HIV/AIDS (dispensed items)
Illness	n	Mean ± SD (%)	95% Cl	p*	Cohen’s d-value
HIV/AIDS + MDD	466	74.43 ± 32.03	71.51-77.34	0.0001	0.2255
MDD	22831	80.94 ± 29.44	80.56-81.33
Mean MPR of ADs in MDD patients with HIV/AIDS vs. gender (dispensed items)
Gender	n	Mean ± SD (%)	95% Cl	p*	Cohen’s d-value
Female	310	69.35 ± 29.69	66.03-72.67	0.0001	0.4755
Male	156	84.51 ± 34.18	79.10-89.91
Mean MPR of ADs in MDD patients without HIV/AIDS vs. gender (dispensed items)
Gender	n	Mean ± SD (%)	95% Cl	p*
Female	16600	80.97 ± 29.72	80.52-81.43	0.8067
Male	6231	80.87 ± 28.65	80.16-81.58
Mean MPR of ADs in MDD patients with HIV/AIDS vs. age group (dispensed items)
Age (years)	n	Mean ± SD (%)	95% Cl	p**
> 18 ≤ 40	126	74.57 ± 32.39	68.86-80.29	0.9519
>40 ≤ 60	284	74.61 ± 33.07	70.74-78.47
>60	56	73.16 ± 25.74	66.27-80.06.
Mean MPR of ADs in MDD patients without HIV/AIDS vs. age group (dispensed items)
Age (years)	n	Mean ± SD (%)	95% Cl	p**
>18 ≤ 40	4320	81.39 ± 28.89	80.56-82.28	0.1111
>40 ≤ 60	10929	80.52 ± 29.85	79.96-81.08
>60	7582	81.30 ± 29.15	80.65-81.92

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