Usual care Questionnaire
Usual care to support adherence to statins was assessed with a 47-item
questionnaire about usual care activities to support adherence based on
the Quality of Standard Care questionnaire as used by the Bruin et
al28,29. The list was adapted to statin therapy by one
of the researchers (BvdB) with permission from the original authors.
HCPs were asked to score the extent of their care activities they
performed to support adherence in the majority of their patients the
past six months a) when initiating statin therapy, b) during follow-up
visits with patients that already used statins for a longer period and
c) for their patients regardless of whether they used a statin. Four out
of the 47 items were qualitative questions and 43 items could be
answered with yes or no. Due to the quantitative character of this study
the four qualitative questions were not included in the analysis. When
the response to a quantitative question was answered with yes, the
answer was awarded one point. The questions as presented to the HCPs are
shown in table 2. A sum score was calculated by summing the scores of
each question, resulting in a sum score from 0 to 43. Furthermore, in
order to create a better understanding of the nature and extent of the
usual care activities, usual care activities were grouped to sub scales.
Also for these sub scales sum scores were calculated. The sub scales
were based on the coding taxonomy provided by the original author:
knowledge, awareness, attitude, social influence, self-efficacy,
intention formation, action control, facilitation,
metascore29. A higher sum score indicates a higher
quality of the level of usual care.