OR for 6-week mortality by home delays among paediatric and adult participants in the severe febrile illness social biopsy study, Tanzania, 2015–2016
| Home delay | Paediatric (n=160)* | Adult (n=156)† | ||||||||
| Cases (n=18)‡ | Controls (n=142)‡ | OR (95% CI) | P value | AF§ (95% CI) | Cases (n=34)‡ | Controls (n=122)‡ | OR (95% CI) | P value | AF§ (95% CI) | |
| Patient reported delay in seeking care due to thinking illness was not severe but severe symptom was present | 3 (16.7) | 20 (14.1) | 1.15 (0.29 to 4.56) | 0.846 | – | 12 (35.3) | 20 (16.4) | 3.01 (1.24 to 7.32) | 0.015 | 23.6 (12.4 to 33.3) |
| Patient waited >24 hours to seek care after onset of severe symptom | 5 (31.2) | 37 (32.5) | 0.87 (0.26 to 2.93) | 0.828 | – | 20 (58.8) | 31 (33.0) | 2.50 (1.11 to 5.63) | 0.027 | 34.5 (12.8 to 50.8) |
| Patient treated at home despite severe symptom | 7 (38.9) | 55 (39.0) | 0.97 (0.34 to 2.71) | 0.948 | – | 6 (17.6) | 28 (23.0) | 0.66 (0.25 to 1.73) | 0.396 | – |
| Time taken to seek care after onset of severe symptom (days) | 1.2 (1.6)¶ | 1.6 (3.0)¶ | 0.91 (0.70 to 1.19) | 0.508 | – | 3.3 (5.9)¶ | 1.3 (1.6)¶ | 1.21 (1.01 to 1.46) | 0.039 | – |
| Total number of dichotomous home delays present | 1.0 (0.8)¶ | 0.9 (0.8)¶ | 1.17 (0.64 to 2.15) | 0.615 | – | 1.2 (1.0)¶ | 0.7 (0.8)¶ | 1.73 (1.10 to 2.71) | 0.017 | – |
*Paediatric analysis is based on 9:1 nearest-neighbour matching with deduplication based on age and gender.
†Adult analysis is based on 6:1 nearest-neighbour matching with deduplication based on age and gender.
‡Data are reported as n (%) unless otherwise noted.
§Attributable fraction is reported as a percentage and is only given for the dichotomous delays significantly associated with mortality on conditional logistic regression analysis.
¶Data reported as mean (SD).
AF, attributable fraction.