Patient Delay in Initiating Tuberculosis Treatment and Associated Factors in Oromia Special Zone, Amhara Region

Table 5

Factors associated with patient delay in DOTs clinics of Oromia Zone, Northeast Ethiopia, 2018.

Variables	Patient delay		Unadjusted and adjusted OR		values
	No delay	Delay	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
Educational status
College/university	14	8	1	1
Did not have any schooling level	73	130	3.12 [1.25, 7.77]	0.74 [0.39, 1.39]
Have basic schooling level	35	34	1.7 [0.63, 4.57]	0.45 [0.23, 0.89]	0.02
Primary	37	20	0.95 [0.34, 2.64]	0.67 [0.29, 1.56]
Secondary	17	19	1.96 [0.65, 5.80]	0.49 [0.17, 1.41]
Place of residence
Urban	93	88	1	1
Rural	83	123	1.57 [1.05, 2.34]	0.99 [0.57, 1.56]
Distance to the nearest health facilities
<10 km	142	113	1	1
≥10 km	34	98	3.62 [2.28, 5.75]	3.23 [1.97, 5.42]
Treatment sought prior to first visit in health facilities
No prior treatment	149	126	1	1
Holy/hot water	4	7	5.03 [1.65, 15.32]	3.62 [1.11, 11.84]
Private drug store/pharmacy	15	48	3.78 [2.02, 7.08]	3.01 [1.52, 5.95]
Traditional healers	8	20	2.96 [1.26, 6.94]	2.14 [0.81, 5.60]
TB type
BCPTB	75	61	1	1
CDPTB	74	71	1.18 [0.74, 1.89]	1.19 [0.71, 1.99]
EPTB	27	79	3.59 [2.07, 6.25]	2.30 [1.26, 4.23]
Knowledge about TB
Good knowledge	105	95	1	1
Poor knowledge	71	116	1.81 [1.20, 2.71]	1.58 [1.01, 2.49]

AOR = adjusted odds ratio; COR = crude odds ratio; CI = confidence interval. N.B. value ≤ 0.05, value ≤ 0.001. Coding of dependent variable: delay = 1 and no delayed = 0.