Table 3.

Patient characteristics associated with TB treatment adherence

Characteristics	Defaults	Non-default	OR (95% IC)	P
Gender (N=1027)
Men	98.0	94.7	2.8 (1.2–6.6)	0.01
Women	2.0	5.3
Age (N=1035)
<30	48.2	44.9	1.1 (0.8–1.4)	NS
≥30	51.8	55.1
Smoking status (N=1039)
Smokers	56.1	49.7	1.3 (1.1–1.5)	0.05
Non-smokers	43.9	50.3
Education (N=996)
< 6years	47.9	57.7	1.3 (1.1–1.5)	<0.01
≥6years	52.1	42.3
Residence area (N=1016)
Rural	12.0	27.5	2.8 (1.9–4.1)	<0.001
Urban	88.0	72.5
Religion (N= 612)
Religious Muslim	62.4	45.1	2.01 (1.4–2.9)	<0.001
Non-religious Muslim	37.6	54.9
Clinical form of TB (N=986)
Pulmonary	85.0	81.5	0.8 (0.5–1.1)	NS
Extra pulmonary	15.0	18.5