Psychometric evaluation of a culturally adapted illness perception questionnaire for African Americans with type 2 diabetes

Table 5 Regression model of the culturally-adapted IPQ-R predicting medication adherence (n = 165)

Independent Variables	Standardized Coefficient (β)	t-test value	Pearson’s Correlations with Adherence
R² = 0.33, p < 0.001
Age	0.20	2.87**	0.274**
Gender	0.04	0.67	0.05
Overall Health	−0.05	−0.75	0.07
External Consequences	0.12	1.40	0.37**
Internal Consequences	−0.14	−1.63	0.13*
Control	−0.05	−0.72	− 0.11
Illness Interpretation	−0.05	− 0.73	−0.02
Present Emotional Representations	0.18	1.69	0.40**
Future Emotional Representations	−0.05	− 0.48	0.25**
Sociocultural Influences	0.16	1.95	0.38**
Timeline	0.17	2.20*	0.34**
Timeline Cyclical	0.18	2.04*	0.34**

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