Table 2.

Patient factors and their adjusted association with test-seeking delay^*

	Multiple regression of patient delay in test-seeking behavior†
Factor	Coefficient	P value
Belief that TB is curable	1.002	0.01
Perceived high prevalence of TB in the local community	0.57	< 0.01
Male gender	0.48	0.02
Education less than complete secondary schooling	0.44	0.03
History of known contact with TB anywhere	–	–
Household ownership index	–	–
Age (in years)	–	–

^*TB = tuberculosis.

^†The dependent variable was the natural logarithm of the days delay in test-seeking for tuberculosis symptoms.

This table features the same patients as Table 1 and all variables with P ≤ 0.2 in Table 1 are shown in Table 2 and were included in the initial multiple linear regression model. Non-significant variables were then removed from the model in turn (indicated by “–”) according to the log-likelihood test until only the significant associations remained in the final model, in Table 2.