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Volume 24, Number 10—October 2018
Research

Tuberculosis Treatment Monitoring by Video Directly Observed Therapy in 5 Health Districts, California, USA

Richard S. GarfeinComments to Author , Lin Liu, Jazmine Cuevas-Mota, Kelly Collins, Fatima Muñoz, Donald G. Catanzaro, Kathleen Moser, Julie Higashi, Teeb Al-Samarrai, Paula Kriner, Julie Vaishampayan, Javier Cepeda, Michelle A. Bulterys, Natasha K. Martin, Phillip Rios, and Fredric Raab
Author affiliations: University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA (R.S. Garfein, L. Liu, J. Cuevas-Mota, K. Collins, F. Muñoz, J. Cepeda, M.A. Bulterys, N.K. Martin, P. Rios, F. Raab); University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA (D.G. Catanzaro); San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, San Diego, California, USA (K. Moser); San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA (J. Higashi); Santa Clara County Public Health Department, San Jose, California, USA (T. Al-Samarrai); Imperial County Public Health Department, El Centro, California, USA (P. Kriner); San Joaquin Public Health Services, Stockton, California, USA (J. Vaishampayan)

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Table 4

Multivariable linear regression analysis of factors associated with FEDO among patients treated for tuberculosis, 5 California health districts, 2015–2016*

Characteristic
 Beta coefficient
 SE
 p value
Months on VDOT (per month)
 0.008
 0.003
 0.01
Country of birth (referent: other)
Mexico −0.095 0.022 <0.001
United States
 −0.048
 0.022
 0.03
Perceived ease or difficulty of VDOT (referent: very easy)
Somewhat easy −0.003 0.024 0.90
Somewhat or very difficult
 −0.130
 0.042
 0.002
Took medications while away from home (referent: never or rarely)
Less than half or half the time −0.004 0.020 0.83
Most of the time or always
 −0.049
 0.021
 0.02
Had problems using the VDOT application (referent: never)
Rarely −0.001 0.018 0.97
Less than half the time −0.040 0.029 0.16
More than half the time −0.220 0.041 <0.001

*FEDO, fraction of expected doses observed = number of complete doses observed through VDOT divided by the number of doses expected; VDOT, video directly observed therapy.

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