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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2022 Jul 9;214(Pt 2):113869. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113869

Table 1.

Summary of baseline participant, household, and house characteristics for the 228 Honduran women included in the study

Participant Characteristics at Baseline a Response Category n Percent
Age < 40 years old 137 60%
≥ 40 years old 91 40%

Education No school 14 6%
Compulsory schooling (6 years) 205 90%
Greater than 6 years 9 4%

Income source Agriculture 148 65%
Multiple sources 80 35%

Who owns participants’ house Immediate family 178 78%
Neighbors 20 9%
Extended family 8 3%
Other or unknown 22 10%

Number of rooms in house ≥ 3 rooms 97 42%
4-5 rooms 116 51%
> 5 rooms 15 7%

Number of people in household 3 people or less 32 14%
4-6 people 111 48%
7-10 people 74 33%
More than 10 people 11 5%

Asset Index b Low (0-4 items) 118 51%
High (5-9 items) 110 48%

Livestock c None 101 47%
Low (1-2 types) 106 44%
High (3 or more types) 21 9%

Cooking time 0-14 hours/week 45 20%
14-28 hours/week 136 60%
28-42 hours/week 41 18%
42-128 hours/week 6 2%

Stove Use Monitoring – % of stove use time >28 °C 0-60% 296 22%
60-80% 607 44%
80-100% 184 13%
Missing Values 280 20%

Primary kitchen enclosure Enclosed 173 76%
Open (including semi-enclosed) 55 24%

Primary kitchen location Inside main living area 22 10%
Outside under veranda/porch 5 2%
Separate building 65 28%
Separate room attached to house 136 60%

Smoke from neighbors No 175 77%
Yes 53 23%

Burn trash No 9 4%
Yes 219 96%

Where is trash burned Outside far from house 136 78%
Outside near house 36 20%
Other 3 2%

Presence of electricity Has electricity 64 28%
No electricity 164 72%

Presence of kerosene Use kerosene for lighting 25 11%
Kerosene not used for lighting 203 89%

Stove type used d Justa 76 39%
Justa + traditional 115 59%
Traditional 5 2%
a

At baseline, study Visit 1, participants were all women and the primary household cook, between 23-59 years old, not pregnant, non-smoking nor exposed to secondhand smoke, and used only traditional cookstoves with biomass fuel to cook

b

9 items including radio, cell phone, bicycle, tv, sewing machine, refrigerator, car, motorbike, and computer

c

5 livestock types including pig, cow, duck, turkey, and horse

d

Data from visit 5, after destruction of traditional stove and installation of Justa stove for all participants