Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors in Tuberculosis Patients at Atwima Nwabiagya District, Ashanti Region, Ghana: A Ten-Year Retrospective Study

Table 5

Bivariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with successful treatment.

Variable	OR (95% CI)	value	aOR (95% CI)	value
Age (years)
(i) ≤20	5.57 (2.08-14.90)	<0.001	4.74 (1.75-12.83)	0.002
(ii) 21-30	1.19 (0.74-1.90)	0.480	1.22 (0.74-2.00)	0.428
(iii) 31-40	1.48 (0.95-2.30)	0.081	1.47 (0.92-2.35)	0.103
(iv) 41-50	1.28 (0.82-1.99)	0.273	1.31 (0.83-2.07)	0.251
(v) 51-60	2.06 (1.20-3.53)	0.009	1.94 (1.12-3.39)	0.019
(vi) >60	Ref		Ref
Gender
(i) Male	Ref		Ref
(ii) Female	0.86 (0.64-1.17)	0.350	0.76 (0.55-1.06)	0.111
Pretreatment weight (kg)
(i) ≤35	Ref		Ref
(ii) 36-45	2.54 (1.36-4.74)	0.004	2.54 (1.32-4.87)	0.005
(iii) 46-55	2.50 (1.36-4.59)	0.003	2.75 (1.44-5.27)	0.002
(iv) 56-65	2.79 (1.44-5.40)	0.002	3.04 (1.50-6.14)	0.002
(v) >65	1.66 (0.75-3.65)	0.210	1.78 (0.78-4.04)	0.170
HIV status
(i) Negative	Ref		Ref
(ii) Positive	0.69 (0.44-1.11)	0.127	0.68 (0.41-1.11)	0.119
Disease classification
(i) Smear positive PTB	Ref		Ref
(ii) Smear negative PTB	0.86 (0.51-1.47)	0.583	0.83 (0.48-1.45)	0.518
(iii) Extra-PTB	0.91 (0.55-1.50)	0.713	0.89 (0.53-1.50)	0.668
(iv) MDR-TB	—	—	—	—
Patient category
(i) New	Ref		Ref
(ii) Relapse	0.63 (0.35-1.11)	0.110	0.60 (0.34-1.08)	0.090
(iii) Transfer in	3.13 (0.38-25.57)	0.287	3.00 (0.34-26.54)	0.322
(iv) Failure	2.24 (0.64-7.79)	0.207	1.90 (0.52-6.90)	0.329
(v) Retreatment	0.40 (0.16-1.00)	0.051	0.31 (0.11-0.84)	0.021
Treatment support
(i) No	Ref		Ref
(ii) Yes	1.05 (0.66-1.68)	0.823	0.92 (0.56-1.51)	0.740