Table 3.
Tuberculosis patient and treatment characteristics associated with incomplete attendance of re-examinations during treatment
| Incomplete re-examination | Univariate | Adjusted | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | n | (%) | OR | (95% CI) | p-value | OR | (95% CI) | |
| Province | < 0.001 | |||||||
| Anhui | 105 | 10 | 9.5% | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Ningxia | 104 | 7 | 6.7% | 0.69 | 0.25-1.88 | 0.83 | 0.29-2.3 | |
| Jiangxi | 105 | 12 | 11.4% | 1.23 | 0.51-2.98 | 1.30 | 0.53-3.2 | |
| Guizhou | 105 | 52 | 49.5% | 9.32 | 4.38-19.84 | 11.64 | 5.1-26.7 | |
| Ganshu | 105 | 11 | 10.5% | 1.11 | 0.45-2.74 | 2.24 | 0.84-5.9 | |
| TB patient category | 0.16 | |||||||
| New | 476 | 80 | 16.8% | 1.00 | ||||
| Retreatment | 48 | 12 | 25% | 1.65 | 0.82-3.31 | |||
| Gender | 0.05 | |||||||
| male | 364 | 72 | 19.8% | 1.00 | ||||
| female | 160 | 20 | 12.5% | 0.58 | 0.34-0.99 | |||
| Age (years) | 0.12 | |||||||
| ≤45 | 238 | 36 | 15.1% | 1.00 | ||||
| 45 -65 | 193 | 33 | 17.1% | 1.16 | 0.69-1.94 | |||
| > 65 | 93 | 23 | 24.7% | 1.84 | 1.02-3.33 | |||
| Awareness of free diagnosis and treatment policy | 0.19 | |||||||
| Yes | 344 | 55 | 16.0% | 1.00 | ||||
| No | 180 | 37 | 20.6% | 1.36 | 0.86-2.16 | |||
| Patients had heard about tuberculosis before seeking care | 0.10 | |||||||
| Yes | 297 | 45 | 15.2% | 1.00 | ||||
| No | 227 | 47 | 20.7% | 1.46 | 0.93-2.30 | |||
| Distance from home to village clinics | 0.11 | |||||||
| < 1 km | 177 | 23 | 13% | 1.00 | ||||
| 1-2 km | 200 | 37 | 18.5% | 1.52 | 0.86-2.67 | |||
| > 2 km | 147 | 32 | 21.8% | 1.86 | 1.04-3.35 | |||
| Return trip costs to diagnostic and re-examination center | 0.008 | |||||||
| ≤20 RMB | 373 | 55 | 14.7% | 1.00 | ||||
| > 20 RMB | 151 | 37 | 24.5% | 1.88 | 1.18-3.00 | |||
| Adverse effects during treatment | < 0.001 | |||||||
| Yes | 312 | 71 | 22.8% | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| No | 212 | 21 | 9.9% | 0.37 | 0.22-0.63 | 0.33 | 0.18-0.59 | |
| DOT during the intensive phase | 0.12 | |||||||
| no DOT | 241 | 51 | 21.2% | 1.00 | ||||
| DOT by village or town doctors | 153 | 24 | 15.7% | 0.69 | 0.41-1.18 | |||
| DOT by volunteers | 130 | 17 | 13.1% | 0.56 | 0.31-1.02 | |||
| DOT observer during ambulatory treatment | 0.006 | |||||||
| No DOT observer | 138 | 44 | 31.90% | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Family member, volunteer or other | 230 | 31 | 13.50% | 0.33 | 0.20-0.56 | 0.61 | 0.29-1.3 | |
| village doctor or township doctor | 156 | 17 | 10.90% | 0.26 | 0.14-0.49 | 0.33 | 0.18-0.63 | |
| Supervision visits by (village) doctor during treatment | < 0.001 | |||||||
| Yes | 462 | 69 | 14.9% | 1.00 | ||||
| No | 62 | 23 | 37.1% | 3.36 | 1.89-5.97 | |||
| time DOT observer spends with the patient during observation of treatment | 0.006 | |||||||
| DOT at home, ≤10 minutes | 181 | 31 | 17.1% | 1.00 | ||||
| DOT at home, > 10 minutes | 198 | 24 | 12.1% | 0.67 | 0.38-1.19 | |||
| DOT outside home | 100 | 21 | 21.0% | 1.35 | 0.76-2.63 | |||
| no DOT | 45 | 16 | 35.6% | 2.24 | 1.45-3.72 | |||