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. 2011 Jan 14;10:2. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-2

Table 2.

Logistic regression analyses of TB treatment preferences and TB stigmatizing ideas, HIV/AIDS stigmatizing ideas and the view that TB patients should be queued up with other chronically ill patients.

TB hospital Clinic Family member collecting medicine DOTS volunteer collecting medicine

Adjusted OR Adjusted OR Adjusted OR Adjusted OR
TB stigma 0.784 (0.657-0.899) 1.326 (1.153-1.537) 1.030 (0.838-1.294) 0.841 (0.684-1.056)
HIV/AIDS Stigma 1.122 (0.957-1.276) 0.975 (0.836-1.121) 0.966 (0.778-1.214) 0.859 (0.712-1.058)
TB patients queued with chronically ill 1.135 (0.997-1.267) 0.950 (0.825-1.082) 0.772 (0.522-1.130) 0.869 (0.630-1.210)
Constant 0.339 0.643 0.167 0.289
Model χ2 x2 = 26.003 x2 = 21.687 x2 = 1.817 x2 = 7.646
-2 log likelihood 1340.191 1275.412 687.333 901.778
Nagelkerke R2 0.034 0.029 0.004 0.013

Notes: Figures in bold are statistically significant at p < 0.05.

Not stigmatizing ideas = 0; stigmatizing ideas = 1.

It does not help to put TB patients in a queue with other chronically ill patients = 0; it does help to put TB patients in a queue with other chronically ill patients

The tables stating the logistic regression models also adjust for gender and education.