Table 5.
Access to health care and characteristics of health service (HS) and total delay in pulmonary tuberculosis treatment. Recife, 2001–2003.
| Total delay in treatment | |||||||
| Access to health care | Unacceptable (> 60 days) | Acceptable (≤ 60 days) | Crude OR | 95% CI | P value | ||
| N | % | N | % | ||||
| Numbers of health units | |||||||
| only 1 | 176 | 63.1 | 103 | 36.9 | 1.00 | - | - |
| ≥ 2 | 493 | 61.2 | 312 | 38.8 | 0.92 | 0.69 – 1.22 | 0.5859 |
| Total | 669 | - | 415 | - | - | - | - |
| HS in same district of residence | |||||||
| Yes | 431 | 61.3 | 272 | 38.7 | 1.00 | - | - |
| No | 255 | 63.6 | 146 | 36.4 | 1.10 | 0.85 – 1.42 | 0.4523 |
| Total | 686 | - | 418 | - | - | - | - |
| HS in neighborhood of residence | |||||||
| Yes | 111 | 63.4 | 64 | 36.6 | 1.00 | - | - |
| No | 575 | 61.9 | 354 | 38.1 | 0.93 | 0.67 – 1.30 | 0.7012 |
| Total | 686 | - | 418 | - | - | - | - |
| Residence in areas of FHP visits | |||||||
| Yes | 258 | 60.4 | 169 | 39.6 | 1.00 | - | - |
| No | 406 | 63.4 | 234 | 36.6 | 1.13 | 0.88 – 1.46 | 0.3196 |
| Total | 664 | - | 403 | - | - | - | - |
| Health District of treatment | 0.0001 | ||||||
| HD II | 170 | 52.8 | 152 | 47.2 | 1.00 | - | - |
| HD I | 57 | 62.6 | 34 | 37.4 | 1.49 | 0.92 – 2.41 | 0.0960 |
| HD III | 139 | 72.8 | 52 | 27.2 | 2.39 | 1.62 – 3.51 | 0.0000 |
| HD IV | 111 | 61.7 | 69 | 38.3 | 1.43 | 0.99 – 2.08 | 0.0553 |
| HD V | 172 | 67.7 | 82 | 32.3 | 1.87 | 1.33 – 2.64 | 0.0003 |
| HD VI | 37 | 55.2 | 30 | 44.8 | 1.10 | 0.64 – 1.87 | 0.7170 |
| Total | 686 | - | 419 | - | - | - | - |