Antituberculosis Drug Nonadherence and Its Associated Factors: Evidence from Debre Berhan Town, North Shewa Zone, Ethiopia

Table 6

Logistic regression analysis of factors associated with anti-TB treatment adherence, Debre Berhan health facilities, 2020.

Characteristics	Nonadherence		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Yes	No
Marital status
Single	25	63	1	1
Married	12	56	0.540 (0.248, 1.174)	0.307 (0.120, 0.788)
Divorced	5	8	1.575 (0.470, 5.280)	1.905 (0.442, 8.210)
Windowed	5	6	0.254 (0.587, 7.508)	0.950 (0.161, 5.614)
Educational level
No formal education	14	19	1	1
Primary and secondary	14	80	0.238 (0.097, 0.581)	0.313 (0.100, 0.976)
College diploma and above	19	34	0.758 (0.321, 1.846)	1.039 (0.301, 3.583)
Experience side effects
Yes	34	56	3.596 (1.740, 7.432)	2.379 (1.008, 5.615)
No	13	77	1	1
Screened for HIV
Yes	38	127	1	1
No	9	6	5.01 (1.678, 14.981)	4.620 (1.135, 18.802)
How much paid for transportation
Did not pay	9	45	1	1
Greater than 50 birr	38	88	2.159 (0.960, 4.856)	1.667 (0.629, 4.416)
Availability of medicine
Always available	42	132	1	1
Sometimes available	5	1	15.74 (1.785, 23.833)	3.845 (1.288, 8.783)
Do you smoke cigarettes?
Yes	4	4	3.000 (0.719, 12.514)	1.508 (0.279, 8.146)
No	43	129	1	1
Do you drink alcohol?
Yes	15	240	1	1
No	32	109	2.129 (1.000, 4.534)	1.468 (0.544, 3.963)

Significantly associated.