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Table 8 Multivariate analysis of factors associated with LDFU for presumptive and TB patients, n = 136

From: Explaining patient delay in healthcare seeking and loss to diagnostic follow-up among patients with presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania: a mixed-methods study

Variable

aOR

P-value

95% CI

Sex

 Male

1 (Ref)

  

 Female

4.12

0.001

1.78–9.50

Perceived causes

Ingestion

 0

1 (Ref)

  

 1–5

0.31

0.005

0.14, 0.70

 Magico-religious

1.29

0.18

0.88–1.91

 Environmental causes

1.06

0.68

0.78–1.43

 Substance use

1.26

0.19

0.88–1.80

 Person to person contact

1.13

0.51

0.77–1.66

 Other conditions

1.39

0.08

0.96–2.02

Help-seeking

 Traditional healers

1.39

0.48

0.54–3.59

 Religious healer

0.51

0.11

0.22–1.17

 Hospital

0.54

0.15

0.23–1.24

  1. CI 95% Confidence Interval, OR Odds ratio, LDFU loss to diagnostic follow-up. Odds ratio associated with variables of perceived causes refer to a unit increment in the respective variable except for ingestion, which showed a non-linear association with LDFU and was therefore categorized. All the variables listed were included simultaneously in the model