Factors associated with late Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnosis among peoples living with it, Northwest Ethiopia: hospital based unmatched case-control study

Table 2 Factors associated with Late HIV Diagnosis in Debre-Markos and Finote-Selam hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, April 2013

Characteristics	Cases N	Controls N	COR (95 %CI)	AOR (95 %CI)	P-value
Comprehensive HIV knowledge^c					0.566
Had	32	58	1^a	1^a
Didn’t have	126	110	2.1 (1.26–3.43)	1.2(0.64–2.29)
Attitude about HIV^c
Positive	53	86	1^a	1^a	0.310
Negative	105	82	2.1(1.33–3.25)	1.3 (0.76–2.39)
Understanding about HIV/AIDS
Had	43	74	1^a	1^a	<0.001
Had no	115	94	2.1 (1.32–3.349)	1.7 (1.08–2.79)
Perceived HIV stigma
Low	41	77	1^a		0.200
High	117	91	2.4 (1.51–3.85)	1.7 (1–2.89)^b
ART knowledge^c
Good	87	110	1^a	1^a	0.775
Poor	71	58	1.5 (1–2.42)^b	1.1 (0.61–1.93)
Understanding about ART
Had	39	70	1^a	1^a	0.015
Had no	106	85	2.2 (1.38–3.63)	2.1 (1.25–3.72)
Reason to test
Symptoms	129	92	1^a	1^a	0.003
Screening	22	35	0.4 (0.25–0.81)	0.5 (0.27–1.06)^b
Risk exposure	36	62	0.4 (0.25–0.68)	0.4 (0.21–0.61)
Mode of HIV acquisition
Sexual contact	161	133	1^a	1^a	0.008
Other methods	26	56	0.4 (0.23–0.64)	0.4 (0.21–0.66)
Opportunistic illness^c
Absent	55	87	1^a	1^a	0.604
Present	132	102	2.0 (1.34–3.13)	0.9 (0.52–1.48)
Year of diagnosis
Before 2007	30	15	1^a	1^a	0.014
2007–2008	57	45	0.6 (0.3–1.32)	0.6 (0.3–1.42)
After 2008	100	129	0.4 (0.2–0.76)	0.3 (0.17–0.72)

N number of respondents, COR crude odds ratio, CI confidence interval, AOR adjusted odds ratio
^aReference category, ^bmariginally significant at 0.05, ^cvariables which were not significantly associated with late HIV diagnosis in the multiple analysis

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