From: Health system delay in treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh
 |  | Univariate analysis (n = 200) | Multivariable analysis (n = 200) | |||||||
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Variable | Median Health system delay | Coefficienta | p* | 95Â % Confidence Interval | Coefficienta | p* | p** | 95Â % Confidence Interval | ||
 |  |  |  | Lower | Upper |  |  |  | Lower | Upper |
Gender | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Male | 51.5 | Reference |  |  |  | Reference |  |  |  |  |
 Female | 45 | −21.9 | 0.01 | −38.9 | −4.9 | −18.1 | 0.27 |  | −50.4 | 14.2 |
Education | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.35 | Â | Â |
 No education | 43 | Reference |  |  |  | Reference |  |  |  |  |
 Up to secondary level | 50.5 | 4.1 | 0.70 | −16.9 | 25.0 | 3.5 | 0.76 |  | −18.7 | 25.7 |
 Higher secondary and above | 54.5 | 58.0 | 0.13 | −17.6 | 133.5 | 58.1 | 0.15 |  | −20.3 | 136.5 |
Provider visited | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.003 | Â | Â |
 DOTS centrec | 45 | Reference |  |  |  | Reference |  |  |  |  |
 Private practitioners | 53 | 33.6 | 0.01 | 10.2 | 57.0 | 37.7 | 0.001 |  | 15.0 | 60.4 |
 Informal provider | 59.5 | 23.4 | 0.12 | −5.9 | 52.7 | 26.2 | 0.13 |  | −8.0 | 60.5 |
Residence status | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Rural | 51 | Reference |  |  |  | Reference |  |  |  |  |
 Urban | 46 | −1.3 | 0.89 | −19.0 | 16.4 | 4.6 | 0.70 |  | −19.1 | 28.2 |
Type of the patients | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.07 | Â | Â |
 New TB patient | 57 | Reference |  |  |  | Reference |  |  |  |  |
 Cured, previously treated | 45 | −4.2 | 0.83 | −41.4 | 33.0 | 21.8 | 0.40 |  | −29.3 | 72.9 |
 Completed, previously treated | 40.5 | 2.0 | 0.90 | −30.1 | 34.0 | 16.5 | 0.54 |  | −36.5 | 69.4 |
 Default, previously treated | 51 | 2.0 | 0.91 | −31.1 | 35.1 | 42.6 | 0.16 |  | −16.7 | 101.9 |
 Failure, previously treated | 54 | 27.4 | 0.14 | −9.3 | 64.1 | 51.7 | 0.08 |  | −5.3 | 108.7 |
 No outcome recorded, previously treated | 56.5 | 5.1 | 0.79 | −31.3 | 41.4 | 23.9 | 0.42 |  | −34.0 | 81.7 |
Occupation | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.66 | Â | Â |
 None | 41.5 | Reference |  |  |  | Reference |  |  |  |  |
 Service | 51 | 34.7 | 0.02 | 5.4 | 64.0 | 17.1 | 0.34 |  | −17.9 | 52.1 |
 Farmer | 54 | 25.0 | 0.10 | −4.8 | 54.8 | 32.8 | 0.16 |  | −12.8 | 78.4 |
 Student | 27 | −15.3 | 0.14 | −35.6 | 5.0 | −21.7 | 0.56 |  | −93.9 | 50.6 |
 Homemaker | 49 | 14.4 | 0.25 | −9.9 | 38.7 | 26.2 | 0.12 |  | −6.8 | 59.1 |
 Factory worker | 54 | 41.6 | 0.15 | −15.0 | 98.2 | 36.6 | 0.32 |  | −35.1 | 108.2 |
 Business | 48.5 | 31.8 | 0.03 | 2.7 | 60.8 | 8.8 | 0.72 |  | −38.6 | 56.2 |
 Self employed | 70.5 | 43.9 | 0.07 | −3.5 | 91.3 | 45.9 | 0.13 |  | −13.7 | 105.4 |
 Transport worker | 45.5 | 51.0 | 0.24 | −33.8 | 135.8 | 45.1 | 0.31 |  | −41.7 | 131.8 |
Age (years) | - | −0.02 | 0.95 | −0.5 | 0.5 | −0.3 | 0.36 |  | −1.0 | 0.4 |
Income (BDT)b | - | 0.001 | 0.21 | −0.001 | 0.003 | 0.0003 | 0.71 |  | −0.001 | 0.002 |