Adjusted prevalence ratios* of reporting cost-related prescription drug nonadherence in relation to household food insecurity status
| Household food insecurity status | Consequence; prevalence ratio (95% CI) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not filling prescription or skipping doses n = 11 178† | Reducing dosage or delaying filling prescription n = 11 466† | Nonadherence | |||
| Overall sample n = 11 172† | Respondents without insurance n = 1897† | Respondents with insurance n = 8943† | |||
| Food secure | 1.00 (ref) | 1.00 (ref) | 1.00 (ref) | 1.00 (ref) | 1.00 (ref) |
| Marginally food insecure | 1.48 (0.84 to 2.62) | 2.22 (1.14 to 4.35) | 1.82 (1.00 to 3.31) | 1.20 (0.49 to 2.93) | 2.27 (1.24 to 4.14) |
| Moderately food insecure | 3.30 (2.08 to 5.24) | 4.58 (2.74 to 7.67) | 3.83 (2.44 to 6.03) | 3.50 (2.16 to 5.66) | 4.27 (2.65 to 6.88) |
| Severely food insecure | 4.77 (3.01 to 7.55) | 6.58 (4.02 to 10.77) | 5.05 (3.27 to 7.81) | 5.18 (3.67 to 7.30) | 5.20 (3.24 to 8.34) |
Note: CI = confidence interval, ref = reference category.
↵* From Poisson regression with bootstrapped standard error.
All models were adjusted for household income, imputed income, sex, age, Aboriginal status, housing tenure, household type, province, drug insurance status (missing for 332 respondents) and number of different drugs prescribed.
↵† Unweighted number of observations.