Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors among TB Patients Attending Public Hospitals in Harar Town, Eastern Ethiopia: A Five-Year Retrospective Study

Table 5

Multivariate analysis of treatment outcome with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of TB patients attending public hospitals of Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia, 2017 (n=1236).

Characteristics	Treatment outcome
	Successful Treatment	Unsuccessful treatment	P. value	AOR (95%CI)
Sex
Male	677 (91.6%)	62(8.4%)	0.015	1.00
Female	466(93.8%)	31 (6.2%)		1.890 (1.140 - 3.135)
Age group
1 - 14 years	62 (91.2%)	69 (8.8%)	≤ 0.001	1.00
15 - 24 years	342(96.3%)	13(3.7%)	0.367	2.138 (0.411 - 11.126)
25 - 34 years	339(93.4%)	24(6.6%)	0.217	2.617 (0.545 - 14.561)
35 - 44 years	191(93.2%)	14(6.8%)	0.318	2.386 (0.436 - 13.009)
45 - 54 years	107(89.9%)	12(10.1%)	0.098	4.243 (0.766 - 23.520)
55 - 64 years	61(84.7%)	11(15.3%)	0.008	10.413 (1.860 - 58.298)
>64 years	41(75.9%)	13(24.1%)	≤ 0.001	24.41 (4.188 - 142.331)
Pre-treatment weight
< 20 Kg	18 (81.8%)	4(18.2%)	0.035	1.00
20 - 29 Kg	27(90.0%)	3(10.0%)	0.012	11.027(1.658 - 73.347)
30 - 37 Kg	75 (88.2%)	10(11.8%)	0.088	4.053 (0.813 - 20.192)
38 - 54 Kg	688(93.2%)	50(6.8%)	0.022	2.824 (1.167 - 6.831)
>55 Kg	335 (92.8%)	26(7.2%)	0.612	1.151 (0.669 - 1.978)
HIV status
HIV positive	232 (82.3%)	50(17.7%)	≤ 0.001	1.00
HIV negative	911(95.5%)	43(4.5%)		6.502 (3.947 - 10.712)
Patient category
Re treatment	32 (86.5%)	5(13.5%)	0.033	1.00
New cases	1111 (92.7%)	88 (7.3%)		3.222 (1.096 - 9.472)
Type of TB
PTB +	377 (94.3%)	23 (5.8%)	0.415	1.00
PTB -	323 (90.7%)	33 (9.3%)	0.208	0.686 (0.382 - 1.233)
Extra PTB	443 (92.3%)	37 (7.7%)	0.876	0.959 (0.566 - 1.625)