Attitudes of Australian patients receiving inpatient mental health care towards deprescribing: a cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Correlation between factor scores and global questions

	Appropriateness Gamma value, p value	Concerns Gamma value, p value	Involvement Gamma value, p value	If my doctor said it was possible I would be willing to stop one or more of my regular medicines Gamma value, p value	Overall, I am satisfied with my current medicines Gamma value, p value
Burden	-0.473P = < 0.001	0.126 P = 0.122	-0.060 P = 0.474	0.253P = 0.014	-0.325P = < 0.001
Appropriateness		-0.022 P = 0.801	0.143 P = 0.092	-0.383P < 0.001	0.332P = 0.002
Concerns			0.047 P = 0.566	-0.250P = 0.018	0.171 P = 0.081
Involvement				0.303P = 0.003	0.47P < 0.001
If my doctor said it was possible I would be willing to stop one or more of my regular medicines					0.037 P = 0.763

Significant associations shown in bold
Gamma value, p value (Gamma rank correlation)– a positive gamma value indicates that as perception of burden, appropriateness of medications, concerns about stopping and involvement increases, agreement with the statement increases. E.g. greater reported involvement was associated with greater reported willingness to have a medication withdrawn. For negative gamma values, this meant that they were more likely to disagree. Ordinal data was used for these analysis (the factor score or the 5-point Likert response for the global questions)

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