In addition, we used an indigenous language dichotomous variable.
16 % 12%18%23%24% % 24 % Indigenous background Dummy variable, 1 if there is at least one household member that speaks a native language, 0 otherwise.
Tests of the proportional hazards assumption via the Schoenfeld residuals for the reduced model suggested that this assumption was violated for the variables Indigenous status and sedentary.
Importantly, after adjusting for the other variables indigenous status was not a significant risk factor for antepartum stillbirth (HR 1.09 95% CI 0.77, 1.55).
father Dummy variable for indigenous father 0.172 Indig.
Indigenous is a dichotomic variable representing the population that speaks an indigenous language.
Moreover, I also control for parental age, whether the parents have an indigenous background and some variables capturing the family structure1.
However, this finding was not borne out by multivariate analysis, suggesting confounding by other variables, particularly indigenous status and remoteness, which are highly correlated in NT.
Immigrants still had significantly lower adherence than indigenous persons and the variables that were significantly associated with non-adherence and virological response remained the same.
These variables included Indigenous status, that is, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status, country of birth, age group, coexisting medical conditions and multiple pregnancy.
