Table 6 Relationship between socio-demographic/clinical characteristics and patients’ adherence to treatment in public and private hospital
From: Retention in care and adherence to HIV and AIDS treatment in Anambra State Nigeria
Variable | Public Hospital | Private Hospital | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Good Adherence (%) | COR (95% CI) | p-value | Good Adherence (%) | COR (95% CI) | p-value | |
Age | ||||||
  < 35 yrs | 175 (86.6) | 0.5 (0.30–0.89) | 0.016 | 192 (96.5) | 1.5 (0.64–3.62) | 0.333 |
  ≥ 35 yrs. | 401 (92.6) |  |  | 413 (94.7) |  |  |
Gender | ||||||
 Male | 159 (93.5) | 1.7 (0.84–3.28) | 0.139 | 426 (95.5) | 1.2 (0.55–2.59) | 0.661 |
 Female | 417 (89.7) |  |  | 179 (94.7) |  |  |
Marital Status | ||||||
 Currently Married | 342 (92.2) | 1.5 (0.88–2.59) | 0.129 | 457 (95.2) | 0.9 (0.40–2.23) | 0.889 |
 Not Currently married | 234 (88.6) |  |  | 148 (95.5) |  |  |
Employment Status | ||||||
 Employed | 503 (91.5) | 1.8 (0.89–3.47) | 0.099 | 546 (95.5) | 1.4 (0.48–4.22) | 0.522 |
 Unemployed | 73 (85.9) |  |  | 59 (93.7) |  |  |
Place of Residence | ||||||
 Rural | 182 (90.1) | 0.9 (0.51–1.59) | 0.718 | 188 (96.4) | 1.5 (0.62–3.51) | 0.370 |
 Urban | 394 (91.0) |  |  | 417 (94.8) |  |  |
Education | ||||||
  ≤ Primary Education | 248 (93.6) | 1.9 (1.04–3.36) | 0.035 | 136 (95.1) | 1.0 (0.40–2.27) | 0.913 |
  ≥ Secondary Education | 328 (88.7) |  |  | 469 (95.3) |  |  |
Dosing Frequency | ||||||
 12hrly | 417 (91.5) | 0.7 (0.42–1.31) | 0.306 | 473 (95.2) | 1.1 (0.44–2.79) | 0.814 |
 24hrly | 159 (88.8) |  |  | 132 (95.7) |  |  |
Regimen Type | ||||||
 First line | 565 (90.8) | 1.8 (0.39–8.33) | 0.444 | 585 (95.6) | 3.3 (0.91–11.61) | 0.055 |
 Second line | 11 (84.6) |  |  | 20 (87.0) |  |  |
Experienced Stock out | ||||||
 Yes | 270 (89.7) | 0.8 (0.47–1.36) | 0.406 | 22 (81.5) | 0.2 (0.06–0.54) | < 0.001 |
 No | 306 (91.6) |  |  | 583 (95.9) |  |  |
Disclosure Status | ||||||
 Yes | 514 (90.8) | 1.1 (0.49–2.56) | 0.796 | 533 (95.0) | 0.5 (0.13–2.27) | 0.383 |
 No | 62 (89.9) |  |  | 72 (97.3) |  |  |