Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence Rate and Associated Factors among People Living with HIV in Dubti Hospital, Afar Regional State, East Ethiopia

Table 2

Effect of selected sociodemographic, clinical, and other characteristics on self-reported adherence rate in Dubti Hospital, Afar, East Ethiopia, 2014.

Variables	Bivariate analysis	Multivariable analysis
	Crude OR (95% CI)	Adjust OR (95% CI)
Residence
Rural	1.53 (0.82–2.85)^*
Urban	1.00
Occupation
Employed	1.48 (0.86–2.85)^*
Unemployed	1.00
WHO clinical stage
I & II	1.00
III & IV	1.59 (0.75–3.38)^*
Baseline CD4 count
<200 cells/mm^3	0.71 (0.42–1.19)^*
≥200 cells/mm^3	1.00
Treatment duration
1–6	1.00	1.00
7–12	0.14 (0.03–0.61)^*	0.12 (0.028–0.54)^**
13–24	0.199 (0.06–0.61)^*	0.19 (0.06–0.578)^**
25–36	0.254 (0.09–0.71)^*	0.24 (0.086–0.68)^**
>36	0.146 (0.06–0.35)^*	0.14 (0.056–0.33)^**

^*The variables significantly associated with the outcome () in bivariate analysis and ^**the variables significantly associated with the outcome at 95% level of significant () in multivariable logistic regression for adjusting all variables listed in the table.