Table 2.

OR for 6-week mortality by home delays among paediatric and adult participants in the severe febrile illness social biopsy study, Tanzania, 2015–2016

Home delay	Paediatric (n=160)*					Adult (n=156)†
	Cases (n=18)‡	Controls (n=142)‡	OR (95% CI)	P value	AF§ (95% CI)	Cases (n=34)‡	Controls (n=122)‡	OR (95% CI)	P value	AF§ (95% CI)
Patient reported delay in seeking care due to thinking illness was not severe but severe symptom was present	3 (16.7)	20 (14.1)	1.15 (0.29 to 4.56)	0.846	–	12 (35.3)	20 (16.4)	3.01 (1.24 to 7.32)	0.015	23.6 (12.4 to 33.3)
Patient waited >24 hours to seek care after onset of severe symptom	5 (31.2)	37 (32.5)	0.87 (0.26 to 2.93)	0.828	–	20 (58.8)	31 (33.0)	2.50 (1.11 to 5.63)	0.027	34.5 (12.8 to 50.8)
Patient treated at home despite severe symptom	7 (38.9)	55 (39.0)	0.97 (0.34 to 2.71)	0.948	–	6 (17.6)	28 (23.0)	0.66 (0.25 to 1.73)	0.396	–
Time taken to seek care after onset of severe symptom (days)	1.2 (1.6)¶	1.6 (3.0)¶	0.91 (0.70 to 1.19)	0.508	–	3.3 (5.9)¶	1.3 (1.6)¶	1.21 (1.01 to 1.46)	0.039	–
Total number of dichotomous home delays present	1.0 (0.8)¶	0.9 (0.8)¶	1.17 (0.64 to 2.15)	0.615	–	1.2 (1.0)¶	0.7 (0.8)¶	1.73 (1.10 to 2.71)	0.017	–

*Paediatric analysis is based on 9:1 nearest-neighbour matching with deduplication based on age and gender.

†Adult analysis is based on 6:1 nearest-neighbour matching with deduplication based on age and gender.

‡Data are reported as n (%) unless otherwise noted.

§Attributable fraction is reported as a percentage and is only given for the dichotomous delays significantly associated with mortality on conditional logistic regression analysis.

¶Data reported as mean (SD).

AF, attributable fraction.