Nutritional Recovery and Its Predictors among Adult HIV Patients on Therapeutic Feeding Program at Finote-Selam General Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 3

Multivariate analysis for the predictor of recovery from malnutrition, Finote-Selam Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2010–2017.

Variables	Category	CRR (95% CI)	ARR (95% CI)
Sex	Male	1	1
	Female	1.09 (0.64–1.72)	1.61 (0.97–2.38)
Residence	Urban	1	1
	Rural	0.85 (0.32–0.93)	0.53 (0.27–0.85)
Educational status	Not educated	1.08 (0.76–1.32)	0.24 (0.13–0.54)
	Educated	1	1
Baseline CD4	<200	1	1
	201–500	1.25 (0.769–1.418)	1.23 (0.985–1.986)
	≥500	1.37 (1.115–1.680)	1.83 (0.83–2.21)
Adherence level	Good	1	1
	Fair or poor	0.44 (0.16–0.61)	0.14 (0.08–0.32)
WHO stage	Stage I or II	1	1
	Stage III or IV	0.72 (0.36–0.92)	0.38 (0.17–0.59)

value < 0.05; value <0.001. ARR, adjusted risk ratio; CRR, crude risk ration; WHO, World Health Organization.