Health Seeking Behaviour and Associated Factors among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Suspects in Lay Armachiho District, Northwest Ethiopia: A Community-Based Study

Table 3

Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis of factors associated with visiting modern health care facility among pulmonary tuberculosis suspects in Lay Armachiho district, Northwest Ethiopia, 2014.

Variable	Visited modern health care facility first		Crude odds ratio with 95% CI	Adjusted odds ratio with 95% CI
	Yes	No
Age
15–34	135	48	4.87 (2.97–7.98)	4.59 (2.71–7.76)
35–54	224	133	2.91 (1.90–4.46)	2.45 (1.54–3.88)
55 and above	45	78	1.00
Sex
Male	134	73	1.00
Female	270	186	0.791 (0.56–1.11)	1.14 (0.72–1.80)
Marital status
Unmarried	120	66	1.00
Married	284	193	0.80 (0.56–1.15)	0.84 (0.57–1.26)
Religion
Orthodox Christian	290	201	1.00
Muslim	74	33	1.55 (0.99–2.43)	0.76 (0.41–1.14)
Protestant	40	25	1.10 (0.65–1.88)	0.98 (0.46–2.08)
Educational level
Illiterate	125	68	1.00	1.00
Elementary	219	163	0.73 (0.5–1.04)	1.10 (0.72–1.67)
Secondary and above	60	28	1.16 (0.68–1.99)	2.61 (1.35–5.04)
Occupation
Unemployed	172	146	1.00	1.00
Farmer	195	105	1.57 (1.14–2.17)	1.43 (1.004–2.05)
Civil servant	37	8	3.92 (1.7–8.69)	3.02 (1.26–7.25)
History of TB treatment
Yes	120	32	2.99 (1.95–4.59)	3.47 (2.16–5.58)
No	284	227	1.00	1.00
Hemoptysis
Yes	28	8	2.33 (1.04–5.20)	2.57 (0.99–6.63)
No	376	251	1.00
Perceived health status
Well	50	67	1.00	1.00
Sick	354	192	2.47 (1.4–3.70)	3.16 (1.98–5.13)

⁢⁢ value < 0.05; value < 0.001; value < 0.0001.
Unemployed includes those who do not have any kind of job and students.