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Table 6 Multivariate analysis of factors associated with delay after onset of symptoms for presumptive and confirmed TB patients, n = 136

From: Explaining patient delay in healthcare seeking and loss to diagnostic follow-up among patients with presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania: a mixed-methods study

Variable

aOR

P-value

95% CI

Sex

 Male

1 (Ref)

  

 Female

2.16

0.06

0.96–4.84

Monthly household income

 Low income

1 (Ref)

  

 Middle Income

3.35

0.01

1.21–9.21

 High Income

2.18

0.14

0.77–6.17

Occupation

 Employed

1 (Ref)

  

 Unemployed

2.81

0.05

1.00–7.90

Perceived causes

 Ingestion

   

 0

1 (Ref)

  

 1–5

0.41

0.03

0.18-0.93

 Magico-religious

1.11

0.56

0.76–1.63

 Environmental causes

1.09

0.57

0.79–1.50

 Substance use

1.41

0.07

0.96–2.06

 Person to person contact

0.93

0.73

0.64–1.36

 Other conditions

1.01

0.94

0.70–1.45

Help-seeking

 Traditional healers

2.66

0.04

1.03–6.84

 Religious healer

1.67

0.23

0.71–3.87

  1. CI = 95% Confidence Interval; Delay was defined as three weeks or more after onset of symptoms up to the visit of the TB clinic, OR, Odds ratio. Odds ratio associated with variables of perceived causes refer to a unit increment in the respective variable except for ingestion which showed a non-linear association with delay and was therefore categorized. All the variables listed were included simultaneously in the model