Determinants of Patient Delay in Seeking Diagnosis and Treatment among Moroccan Women with Cervical Cancer

Table 3

Associations between delayed reporting demographic and socioeconomic variables.

Categorial variables	≤90 days ()	>90 days; ()	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	(%)	(%)	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Age (year)
≤50	100 (53.5)	87 (46.5)	0.509	[0.341–0.759]		0.802	[0.817–3.977]	0.145
>50	79 (36.9)	135 (63.1)
Marital status
Married	114 (44.9)	140 (55.1)
Unmarried	65 (44.2)	82 (55.8)	1.027	[0.683–1.546]	0.897
Education status
Illiterate	58 (27)	157 (73)
Primary level	43(46.2)	50 (53.8)	0.430	[0.259–0.713]		0.239	[0.099–0.574]
Secondary and higher level	78 (83.9)	15 (16.1)	0.071	[0.038–0.133]		0.026	[0.007–0.095]
Education status of husband
Illiterate	13 (24.1)	41 (75.9)
Primary level	27 (31.8)	58 (68.2)	0.681	[0.314–1.476]	0.330	0.845	[0.367–1.948]	0.693
Secondary and higher level	74 (64.3)	41 (35.7)	0.176	[0.085–0.365]		1.219	[0.421–3.529]	0.715
Residence
Urban	136 (49.5)	139 (50.5)
Rural	43 (43.1)	83 (65.9)	1.888	[1.219–2.925]		0.451	[0.178–1.146]	0.094
Occupation
Employed	47 (61)	30 (39)
Unemployed	132 (46.7)	192 (59.3)	0.439	[0.264–0.730]		1.528	[0.496–4.708]	0.461
Socioeconomic status
Low	125 (38.5)	200 (61.5)	3.927	[2.280–6.765]		1.525	[0.606–3.841]	0.370
Moderate and high	54 (71.1)	22 (28.9)
Social security
Yes	173 (44.2)	218 (55.8)
No	6 (60)	4 (40)	0.529	[0.147–1.904]	0.330
Distance to the first consultation (Km)
<3	155 (49.2)	160 (50.8)
	5 (29.4)	12 (70.6)	2.325	[0.800–6.754]		2.953	[0.262–33.248]	0.381
	6 (25)	27 (75)	2.906	[1.324–6.378]		2.720	[0.758–9.770]	0.125
≥10	10 (30.3)	23 (69.7)	2.228	[1.027–4.834]		4.943	[1.162–21.035]

Model included variables that were significant on univariate analyses at (0.20 level).
Significant at value ≤ 0.05.