At times, no specific reason for declining was provided; primary reasons included concern about the length of the interview and concern about the interview being recorded (Table 4).
The primary reason included consent withdrawal (17 patients), adverse events (14 patients), lost during follow-up (8 patients), protocol violation (6 patients) and other reasons (5 patients).
About 35% of the respondents' partners were not tested for HIV and the primary reason included partner's lack of time (29%), partner's being living in other areas (8.8%), partner's tested before the current pregnancy (8.4%), faithfulness of partners (5.4%), lack of awareness about the importance of HIV testing (4%) and fear of the outcome (being positive for HIV) (3.4%).
Other primary reasons cited included stress reduction and detoxification.
This allows for up to 30% of patients not providing information on the primary outcome, for reasons including withdrawal and non-completion of questionnaire.
Failure reasons include: 1.
Possible reasons include: 1.
Price and income elasticities vary across studies for many possible systematic reasons, including primary study methodology, country of origin, publication date, sample time period, and so forth.
The majority, 59%, of patients were referred from hospitals, clinics, and dispensaries in the Kilimanjaro region, for a variety of reasons, including primary surgical or orthopedic care, worsening condition or complications occurring during hospitalization at another facility.
The primary reason for including only two methods is thus to not present the user with a large number of redundant predictions.
