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. 2018 Aug 9;13(8):e0199513. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199513

Table 5. Impact of social support program on treatment default among high-risk TB patients, Ukraine, 2012.

  2012 Cohort
Coefficient (SE) (p-value) AME (SE) (p-value)
Social Support Intervention -2.506*** (0.458) (0.000) -0.101*** (0.025) (0.000)
HIV-positive 0.041 (0.567) (0.942) 0.002 (0.025) (0.942)
Alcoholic 0.958 (0.530) (0.075) 0.045 (0.024) (0.069)
Injection Drug User 0.978 (0.601) (0.108) 0.057 (0.046) (0.218)
Contact to Case -1.284 (1.152) (0.269) -0.038 (0.021) (0.068)
Co-morbidity -0.292 (0.607) (0.632) -0.012 (0.025) (0.629)
Homeless 1.110 (0.597) (0.067) 0.068 (0.046) (0.145)
Unemployed 0.503 (0.414) (0.229) 0.022 (0.017) (0.219)
Other1 -0.273 (0.749) (0.717) -0.011 (0.029) (0.696)
> 1 Risk Factor 0.181 (0.746) (0.809) 0.008 (0.031) (0.804)
First TB Diagnosis -0.160 (0.917) (0.862) -0.007 (0.043) (0.865)
Pulmonary TB -0.084 (0.783) (0.915) -0.004 (0.037) (0.917)
WHO Category I 0.867 (0.891) (0.334) 0.035 (0.032) (0.283)
≥ 2 Interruptions 0.514 (0.522) (0.328) 0.025 (0.027) (0.352)
Male 0.579 (0.451) (0.204) 0.023 (0.017) (0.176)
Age Group
18–29 years (ref.)
30–39 years -0.194 (0.558) (0.729) -0.012 (0.034) (0.733)
40–49 years -0.862 (0.605) (0.159) -0.042 (0.030) (0.165)
50–59 years -0.752 (0.588) (0.205) -0.038 (0.030) (0.213)
60 and older -1.785 (1.151) (0.125) -0.065 (0.033) (0.053)
Urban Residence 0.325 (0.641) (0.614) 0.013 (0.024) (0.582)
Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk (ref.)
Kharkiv 0.330 (0.529) (0.535) 0.015 (0.025) (0.547)
Odessa 0.031 (0.701) (0.964) 0.001 (0.030) (0.965)
Constant -3.673* (1.575) (0.023)
N 706 706    

1 Other includes health care worker, migrant, refugee, ex-prisoner and other unspecified.

*p<0.05

**p<0.01

***p<0.001