Factors Associated with Patient’s Delay in Tuberculosis Treatment in Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of factors associated with patient delay in public health care facilities of Bahir Dar town, Northwest Ethiopia.

Variables	Patient delay		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	≤21 days	>21 days
Sex
Male	87	127	1.08 (0.70, 1.65)
Female	62	84	1.00
Age
<20	19	20	0.56 (0.26, 1.22)
20–39	103	140	0.72 (0.42, 1.22)
≥40	27	51	1.00
Place of residence
Urban	114	124	1.00	1.00
Rural	35	87	𝟐.𝟐𝟗(𝟏.𝟒𝟑,𝟑.𝟔𝟓)^∗∗	1.74 (1.04, 2.90)
Marital status
Single	65	87	1.00
Married	65	103	1.18 (0.76, 1.85)
Widowed	6	8	1.00 (0.33, 3.01)
Divorced	13	13	0.75 (0.33, 3.79)
Education level
Illiterate	38	86	𝟒.𝟕𝟓(𝟐.𝟒𝟕,𝟗.𝟏𝟓)^∗∗∗	𝟑.𝟕𝟑(𝟏.𝟖𝟕,𝟕.𝟒𝟒)^∗∗∗
Read and write	15	23	𝟑.𝟐𝟐(𝟏.𝟑𝟗,𝟕.𝟒𝟔)^∗∗	𝟐.𝟓𝟖(𝟏.𝟎𝟖,𝟔.𝟏𝟓)^∗
Elementary	20	36	𝟑.𝟕𝟖(𝟏.𝟕𝟔,𝟖.𝟏𝟏)^∗∗	𝟑.𝟑𝟗(𝟏.𝟓𝟕,𝟕.𝟑𝟑)^∗∗
Junior/secondary	34	46	𝟐.𝟖𝟒(𝟏.𝟒𝟐,𝟓.𝟔𝟖)^∗∗	𝟐.𝟕𝟒(𝟏.𝟑𝟔,𝟓.𝟒𝟗)^∗∗
College and above	42	20	1.00	1.00
Occupation
Employee	26	16	1.00
Merchant	12	13	1.92 (0.70, 5.31)
Farmer	20	53	𝟒.𝟑𝟏(𝟏.𝟗𝟐,𝟗.𝟔𝟔)
Daily laborer	25	32	2.08 (0.92, 4.69)
Student	23	42	𝟐.𝟗𝟕(𝟏.𝟑𝟑,𝟔.𝟔𝟑)
Housewife	44	55	2.03 (0.97, 4.25)
Smoking habit
Yes	8	9	0.79 (0.85, 1.99)
No	141	202	1.00
Distance to the nearest health institutions
<10 km	114	156	1.00
≥10 km	35	55	1.15 (0.71, 1.87)

^∗𝑃-value < 0.05, ^∗∗𝑃-value < 0.01, ^∗∗∗𝑃-value < 0.001.