Intention to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV in China under the scaling-up of ART: the role of healthcare workers’ recommendations

Table 3 Associations between psycho-social factors, healthcare workers’ recommendations and ART intention

		Univariate		Multivariate
	%	OR_u	95% CI	OR_a	95% CI
Psycho-social status
Depression
Normal (0–4)	57.5	1.00		1.00
Mild (5–9)	67.9	1.56	(0.99,2.48)⁺	1.58	(0.94,2.66)⁺
Moderate-severe (10–27)	81.3	3.21	(1.88,5.47) ^***	2.85	(1.57,5.16) ^***
Anxiety
Normal (0–4)	57.3	1.00		1.00
Mild (5–9)	78.5	2.72	(1.71,4.34) ^***	2.50	(1.49,4.18) ^***
Moderate-severe (10–21)	78.8	2.76	(1.52,5.04) ^***	2.29	(1.17,4.45) ^*
Perceived stigma		1.00	(0.97,1.03)	1.00	(0.97,1.03)
Social support		1.01	(0.99,1.03)	1.02	(1.00,1.03)⁺
Healthcare workers’ recommendations to initiate ART
From physicians at CHCs
Weak recommendation	58.5	1.00		1.00
Strong recommendation	58.2	0.99	(0.6,1.63)	1.21	(0.69,2.11)
Not applicable	85.7	4.26	(2.35,7.72) ^***	2.94	(1.53,5.66) ^***
From physicians at the CDC
Weak recommendation	40.3	1.00		1.00
Strong recommendation	76.1	4.71	(2.73,8.13) ^***	4.77	(2.51,9.05) ^***
Not applicable	45.5	1.24	(0.53,2.86)	1.26	(0.48,3.33)
From healthcare workers at NGOs
Weak recommendation	46.5	1.00		1.00
Strong recommendation	80	4.60	(2.40,8.78) ^***	4.89	(2.37,10.08) ^***
Not applicable	73.1	3.12	(1.94,5.03) ^***	2.78	(1.60,4.84) ^***

OR_u: odds ratio of univariate logistic regression models;
OR_a:odds ratios of adjusted logistic regression models’ adjusting for background variables which were multivariately significant in Table 2
⁺: p < 0.1; ^*:p < 0.05; ^**: p < 0.01; ^***: p < 0.001
ORs with p < 0.05 are in bold

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