Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among People Living with HIV in Nepal

Table 10

Binary logistic regression analysis of patients’ adherence to antiretroviral medicines with various predictor variables.

Predictors	B (SE)	value	95% CI for OR [lower–upper]	Nagelkerke R2
Age (years)
18–38	−17.70 (9220.89)	0.998	0	0.03
39–58	−17.56 (9220.89)	0.998	0
Gender
Male	−0.76 (1.16)	0.514	0.46 [0.04–4.59]	0.014
Education level
Illiterate	0 (13580.53)	1.000	1.000 [0–]
Just read and write	−17.61 (12118.65)	0.999	0 [0–]	0.109
Secondary level	−18.34 (12118.65)	0.999	0 [0–]
Occupation
Service holders	−21.20 (15191.58)	0.999	0 [0–]
Businessman	0 (17349.99)	1.000	1.00 [0–]
Labor	−18.06 (15191.58)	0.999	0 [0–]
Agriculture	0 (15719.48)	1.000	1.00 [0–]
Unemployed	−19.81 (15191.58)	0.999	0 [0–]
Smoking habit
Never smoked	2.20 (1.29)	0.088	9.08 [0.71–114.85]
1-2 cigarettes per day	1.87 (1.48)	0.206	6.50 [0.35–118.37]	0.075
3-4 cigarettes per day	19.41 (15191.51)	0.999	2.6910^10 [0–]
Alcohol consumption
Never	−17.51 (40192.97)	1.000	0 [0–]
Once a month	0 (41057.44)	1.000	1.00 [0–]
2-3 times a month	0 (41511.12)	1.000	1.00 [0–]	0.273
2-3 times a week	0 (49226.13)	1.000	1.00 [0–]
3-4 times a week	−42.40 (56841.44)	0.999	0 [0–]
Drug addiction history
Never	−17.57 (12710.13)	0.999	0 [0–]	0.017
In past but not currently	0 (42154.74)	1.000	1.00 [0–]
HIV diagnosed
Less than a year ago	17.25 (40192.96)	1.000	3.1210^9 [0–]	0.074
1–3 years ago	−2.33 (1.24)	0.060	0.09 [0.009–1.10]
Start of ART
Less than a year ago	17.27 (20096.48)	0.999	3.1810^9 [0–]	0.078
1–3 years ago	−2.31 (1.24)	0.062	0.09 [0.009–1.12]
Disclosure of HIV status
No	17.55 (15191.51)	0.999	4.1910^9 [0–]	0.01
Educational intervention received
No	17.54 (16408.71)	0.999	4.1610^9 [0–]	0.009