Socio-protective effects of active case finding on catastrophic costs from tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: a longitudinal patient cost survey

Table 3 Association between catastrophic costs and baseline characteristics for the entire episode of TB

Baseline characteristics	Catastrophic cost incurrence^c N (%)^d	Crude OR (95 %CI)	Adjusted^e OR (95 %CI)
Case finding model
PCF^a	13/44 (30)	1.00	1.00
ACF	8/52 (15)	0.43 (0.16–1.17)	0.17 (0.05–0.67)*
Sex
Female^a	6/35 (30)	1.00	1.00
Male	15/61 (25)	1.58 (0.55–4.52)	1.65 (0.49–5.53)
Age category^b
≤50 years^a	9/51 (18)	1.00	1.00
>50 years	12/45 (27)	1.70 (0.64–4.51)	2.09 (0.67–6.52)
Education level
Up to primary school only^a	11/33 (33)	1.00	1.00
Secondary school and above	10/63 (16)	0.38 (0.14–1.02)	0.15 (0.04–0.60)*
Employment status
Unemployed^a	4/25 (16)	1.00	1.00
Employed	17/71 (24)	1.65 (0.50–5.49)	4.14 (0.83–20.76)
Social Health Insurance status
Uninsured^a	5/20 (25)	1.00	1.00
Insured	16/76 (21)	0.80 (0.25–2.53)	0.78 (0.19–3.23)

^aReferent;
^bAge>50 years (mean age for pooled sample);
^cN=96;
^dDenotes participants that incurred catastrophic costs over the total number of people in a given subgroup;
^eMultivariate logistic regression incorporating all shown patient covariates (i.e., case finding model, sex, etc.) as exposure parameters for the model
* Statistically significant difference at 95 % confidence level

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