Correlations between sociodemographic variables,

	Sociodemographic variables					BMQ scales
MARS	Gender	Age	Education	Family status	Work status	BMQ - necessity	BMQ - concern
Medication adherence	0.15	0.09	0.08	0.25^**	0.26^**	-0.12	0.19^*

MARS- Medication Adherence Rating Scale; BMQ- Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire
^**p<0.01; ^*p<0.05; N=168

Table 2: Correlations between sociodemographic variables, beliefs about medicines and medication adherence in the total sample.