TABLE 3.
Baseline Patient Characteristics by Latent Class, n = 547 | |||||
Livelihood and Mobility | Clinic Accessibility | Mobility and Family | Doubting Need for HIV Care | Multidimensional Barriers to Care | |
Female sex, percent | 47.4% | 65.6% | 64.4% | 58.2% | 52.0% |
Median age at LTFU, yrs (IQR) | 37 (31–41) | 36 (30–42) | 35 (28–40) | 36 n(31–42) | 36 (32–39) |
Median enrollment CD4 count, cells/μL (IQR) | 213 (125–340) | 214 (130–317) | 236 (106–397) | 217 (118–407) | 167 (113–328) |
Enrollment WHO stage, percent | |||||
I | 43.0% | 46.7% | 55.7% | 63.7% | 43.1% |
II | 17.9% | 17.5% | 12.3% | 19.3% | 18.8% |
III | 30.8% | 32.1% | 27.3% | 15.6% | 34.4% |
IV | 8.3% | 3.7% | 4.7% | 1.4% | 3.7% |
Median time from ART initiation to LTFU, yrs (IQR) | 2.0 (0.6–4.2) | 1.4 (0.5–2.9) | 0.9 (0.1–2.7) | 0.2 (0.0–1.6) | 2.7 (0.3–4.0) |
Prior episodes of LTFU, percent | |||||
0 | 34.8% | 52.7% | 58.2% | 68.8% | 51.5% |
1 | 37.3% | 38.6% | 28.4% | 19.5% | 27.7% |
2 | 21.9% | 5.4% | 9.2% | 3.5% | 9.5% |
>3 | 6.0% | 3.4% | 4.2% | 8.1% | 11.3% |
Marital status, percent | |||||
Single | 19.4% | 13.8% | 21.0% | 19.8% | 29.3% |
Married | 63.5% | 55.3% | 58.2% | 53.1% | 45.6% |
Divorced | 11.5% | 17.2% | 15.0% | 9.7% | 19.6% |
Widowed | 5.6% | 13.8% | 5.8% | 17.3% | 5.5% |
Education, percent | |||||
None | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5.2% | 8.5% | 0.5% |
Lower–Mid basic | 31.6% | 42.7% | 27.8% | 38.5% | 31.0% |
Upper basic/Secondary | 41.2% | 43.0% | 53.3% | 33.0% | 44.8% |
College/University | 25.0% | 10.8% | 13.6% | 20.0% | 23.6% |
Facility type, percent | |||||
Urban | 75.1% | 75.2% | 67.1% | 79.6% | 67.5% |
Rural | 3.9% | 4.5% | 6.2% | 6.6% | 13.8% |
Hospital | 21.1% | 20.3% | 26.7% | 13.8% | 18.7% |
Province, percent | |||||
Lusaka | 74.6% | 68.5% | 56.6% | 72.0% | 71.4% |
Eastern | 5.4% | 9.1% | 14.5% | 9.7% | 4.5% |
Southern | 6.3% | 12.2% | 15.8% | 14.2% | 15.8% |
Western | 13.8% | 10.2% | 13.1% | 4.2% | 8.4% |
All values calculated accounting for sampling weights included in the initial latent class model.
IQR, interquartile range; LTFU, loss to follow-up.