Table 4.

Treatment history-stratified associations between social conditions and treatment adherence (n = 551)

Variables	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	New case (n = 182)	Previously treated case (n = 369)	New case (n = 182)	Previously treated case (n = 369)	New case (n = 182)	Previously treated case (n = 369)
	aOR (95%CI)*	aOR (95%CI)*	aOR (95%CI)*	aOR (95%CI)*	aOR (95%CI)*	aOR (95%CI)*
Education
University or higher	1	1	1	1	1	1
High school	1.86 (0.47–7.32)	1.52 (0.65–3.57)	1.97 (0.39–7.91)	1.44 (0.61–3.43)	1.71 (0.41–7.10)	1.27 (0.52-3.07)
Middle school or lower, or refused to answer	1.22 (0.38–2.43)	3.18 (1.35–7.51)†	1.28 (0.28–5.88)	3.03 (1.27–7.23)‡	1.02 (0.22–4.77)	2.48 (1.02-6.04)‡
Type of housing
Private	1	1	1		1	1
Shared	1.85 (0.57–6.03)	2.65 (1.02–6.87)‡	2.01 (0.61–6.62)	2.90 (1.10–7.67)‡	2.81 (0.79–9.99)	3.08 (1.11-8.52)‡
Occupation
Non-employment	1	1	1	1	1	1
Health care/professional/office worker	1.69 (0.32–9.03)	0.90 (0.31–2.62)	1.64 (0.30–8.88)	0.91 (0.31–2.68)	1.70 (0.31–9.44)	0.92 (0.31-2.74)
Service industry worker	2.20 (0.60–8.08)	2.22 (1.03–4.79)‡	2.14 (0.57–7.95)	2.41 (1.10–5.26)‡	1.95 (0.51–7.39)	1.99 (0.89–4.47)
Workers in the construction or manufacturing Industries	1.78 (0.52–6.10)	2.70 (1.26–5.80)‡	1.79 (0.52–6.18)	3.08 (1.41–6.72)†	1.61 (0.46–5.65)	2.41 (1.06-5.49)‡
Agriculture/aquaculture	0.56 (0.54–5.82)	0.99 (0.19–5.10)	0.59 (0.05–6.29)	1.11 (0.21–5.84)	0.51 (0.05–5.58)	0.93 (0.17-5.01)

^*Model 1 = adjusted for age, sex and place of residence; Model 2 = adjusted for Model 1 + diabetes mellitus, body mass index, treatment regimen and disease severity on chest X-ray; Model 3 = adjusted for Model 2 + smoking and alcohol.

^†P < 0.01.

^‡P < 0.05.

aOR = adjusted odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.