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 |
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| Age | < 40 years old | 137 | 60% |
| ≥ 40 years old | 91 | 40% | |
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| Education | No school | 14 | 6% |
| Compulsory schooling (6 years) | 205 | 90% | |
| Greater than 6 years | 9 | 4% | |
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| Income source | Agriculture | 148 | 65% |
| Multiple sources | 80 | 35% | |
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| Who owns participants’ house | Immediate family | 178 | 78% |
| Neighbors | 20 | 9% | |
| Extended family | 8 | 3% | |
| Other or unknown | 22 | 10% | |
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| Number of rooms in house | ≥ 3 rooms | 97 | 42% |
| 4-5 rooms | 116 | 51% | |
| > 5 rooms | 15 | 7% | |
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| 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% | |
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| Asset Index b | Low (0-4 items) | 118 | 51% |
| High (5-9 items) | 110 | 48% | |
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| Livestock c | None | 101 | 47% |
| Low (1-2 types) | 106 | 44% | |
| High (3 or more types) | 21 | 9% | |
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| 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% | |
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| 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% | |
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| Primary kitchen enclosure | Enclosed | 173 | 76% |
| Open (including semi-enclosed) | 55 | 24% | |
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| 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% | |
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| Smoke from neighbors | No | 175 | 77% |
| Yes | 53 | 23% | |
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| Burn trash | No | 9 | 4% |
| Yes | 219 | 96% | |
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| Where is trash burned | Outside far from house | 136 | 78% |
| Outside near house | 36 | 20% | |
| Other | 3 | 2% | |
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| Presence of electricity | Has electricity | 64 | 28% |
| No electricity | 164 | 72% | |
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| Presence of kerosene | Use kerosene for lighting | 25 | 11% |
| Kerosene not used for lighting | 203 | 89% | |
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| Stove type used d | Justa | 76 | 39% |
| Justa + traditional | 115 | 59% | |
| Traditional | 5 | 2% | |
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
9 items including radio, cell phone, bicycle, tv, sewing machine, refrigerator, car, motorbike, and computer
5 livestock types including pig, cow, duck, turkey, and horse
Data from visit 5, after destruction of traditional stove and installation of Justa stove for all participants