Table 1.

Therapy Adherence Scale (TAS) Questions

Scoring:
1. All of the Time
2. Most of the Time
3. Some of the Time
4. None of the Time
Dietary Compliance
1. How often do you eat salty food?
2. How often do you shake salt on your food before you eat it?
3. How often do you eat fast food?
Appointment Keeping
4. How often do you make the next appointment before you leave the doctor’s office?*
5. How often do you miss scheduled appointments?
Medication Adherence
6. How often do you forget to take your high blood pressure medicine?
7. How often do you skip your high blood pressure medicine before you go to the doctor?
8. How often do you forget to get prescriptions filled?
9. How often do you decide NOT to take your high blood pressure medicine?
10. How often do you run out of high blood pressure pills?
11. How often do you miss taking your high blood pressure pills when you feel better?
12. How often do you miss taking your high blood pressure pills when you feel sick?
13. How often do you take someone else’s high blood pressure pills?
14. How often do you miss taking your high blood pressure pills when you are careless?
  • * Reverse coding.