Table 4.

Factors associated with the attributes of acceptability, simplicity, usefulness, flexibility and timeliness among key stakeholders of the South African National Diseases Surveillance System in 2015

System Attribute	Factor	Logistic Regression Analysis			Multivariate Analysis
		Odds Ratio	95 % CI	p-value	Odds Ratio	95 % C I	p-value
Acceptability	Years of Experience	0.91	0.84–1.00	0.041*	0.91	0.84–1.00	0.041*
	Participation in NORT	1.21	0.44–3.32	0.708
	Participation in PORT	0.76	0.24–2.44	0.651
	Training in the NDSS	1.36	0.43–4.31	0.601
Flexibility	Training in the NDSS	2.18	0.80–5.95	0.129
Simplicity	Training in the NDSS	1.85	0.67–5.09	0.234
	Participation in NORT	0.75	0.29–1.95	0.550
Timeliness	Participation in NORT	1.17	0.50–2.76	0.714
	Disease Detection	0.10	0.01–0.96	0.046*	0.10	0.01–0.96	0.046*
Usefulness	Training in the NDSS	2.47	1.00–6.07	0.049*	1.98	0.75–5.21	0.168
	Participation in NORT	0.41	0.17–0.98	0.045*	0.38	0.16–0.93	0.034*
	Participation in PORT	2.5	0.83–7.56	0.105

95 % CI 95 % Confidence Interval

PORT Provincial Outbreak Response Team

NORT National Outbreak Response Team

NDSS Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

*p values significant at 5 % level