Table 3. Summary of COVID-19 knowledge according to head of compounds and woman characteristics.
| Head of Compound | Women | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correct symptom knowledge | P-value | Good prevention knowledge | P-value | Good risk knowledge | P-value | Correct symptom knowledge | p-value | Good prevention knowledge | p- value | Good risk knowledge | p-value | ||
| Overall | 1262 (33.2) | 1500 (39.5) | 672 (17.7) | 2487 (26.0) | 2908 (30.4) | 1475 (15.4) | |||||||
| Age* | 16–19 | 315 (21.2) | <0.001 | 377 (26.1) | <0.001 | 199 (13.8) | 0.005 | ||||||
| 20–29 | 981 (25.5) | 1157 (30.1) | 604 (15.7) | ||||||||||
| 30–39 | 178 (30.4) | 0.454 | 215 (36.7) | 0.277 | 87 (14.9) | 0.082 | 760 (28.5) | 887 (33.3) | 454 (17.1) | ||||
| 40–49 | 322 (34.6) | 356 (38.2) | 179 (19.2) | 431 (26.9) | 486 (30.3) | 218 (13.6) | |||||||
| 50–59 | 323 (34.6) | 383 (41.0) | 181 (19.4) | ||||||||||
| 60–69 | 241 (33.2) | 291 (40.0) | 129 (17.8) | ||||||||||
| ≥ 70 | 197 (32.9) | 253 (42.0) | 94 (15.6) | ||||||||||
| Education | No formal education | 195 (26.0) | <0.001 | 196 (26.1) | <0.001 | 138 (18.4) | <0.001 | 753 (21.0) | <0.001 | 789 (22.0) | <0.001 | 577 (16.1) | <0.001 |
| Informal/religious education | 729 (31.1) | 893 (38.1) | 318 (13.6) | 1351 (26.5) | 1654 (32.4) | 669 (13.1) | |||||||
| Formal education | 338 (48.4) | 409 (58.6) | 216 (31.0) | 382 (44.8) | 465 (54.6) | 229 (26.9) | |||||||
| Occupation | Farming | 611 (31.9) | <0.001 | 747 (39.0) | <0.001 | 268 (14.0) | <0.001 | 5 (20.0) | <0.001 | 8 (32.0) | <0.001 | 5 (20.0) | <0.001 |
| Unskilled manual labour | 31 (25.8) | 42 (35.0) | 17 (14.2) | 202 (47.5) | 172 (40.5) | 53 (12.5) | |||||||
| Skilled manual labour | 113 (31.6) | 123 (34.4) | 80 (22.4) | 1288 (24.6) | 1615 (30.8) | 837 (16.0) | |||||||
| Business owner/woman | 376 (33.5) | 439 (39.1) | 240 (21.4) | 816 (28.9) | 885 (31.3) | 484 (17.1) | |||||||
| Professional/TBA | 101 (58.7) | 111 (64.5) | 51 (30.0) | 11 (52.4) | 14 (66.7) | 6 (28.6) | |||||||
| Not working | 30 (27.3) | 38 (34.6) | 16 (14.6) | 165 (16.1) | 214 (20.9) | 90 (8.8) | |||||||
| Wealth | Lowest | 161 (21.1) | <0.001 | 250 (32.7) | <0.001 | 98 (12.8) | <0.001 | 182 (13.1) | <0.001 | 280 (20.2) | 129 (9.3) | <0.001 | |
| Low | 192 (24.5) | 244 (31.2) | 80 (10.2) | 314 (17.6) | 402 (22.5) | 184 (10.3) | |||||||
| Middle | 207 (27.1) | 260 (34.1) | 113 (14.8) | 359 (18.7) | 451 (23.5) | 215 (11.2) | |||||||
| High | 314 (42.8) | 325 (44.3) | 179 (24.4) | 609 (30.2) | 686 (34.0) | 374 (18.5) | |||||||
| Highest | 388 (51.3) | 421 (55.7) | 202 (26.7) | 1023 (41.7) | 1089 (44.4) | 573 (23.4) | |||||||
| Access to radio | Yes | 543 (47.2) | <0.001 | 600 (52.1) | <0.001 | 305 (26.5) | <0.001 | 1331 (36.0) | <0.001 | 1441 (39.0) | <0.001 | 776 (21.0) | <0.001 |
| No | 719 (27.1) | 900 (34.0) | 367 (13.8) | 1156 (19.7) | 1467 (25.0) | 699 (11.9) | |||||||
| Access to mobile | Yes | 1124 (34.6) | <0.001 | 1241 (38.2) | <0.001 | 543 (16.7) | <0.001 | 2307 (26.7) | <0.001 | 2508 (29.0) | <0.001 | 1262 (14.6) | <0.001 |
| No | 138 (25.1) | 259 (47.1) | 129 (23.5) | 180 (19.3) | 400 (43.0) | 213 (22.9) | |||||||
* There were no heads of compound aged under 30 and no women aged over 49 in our sample.
Overall, much fewer respondents had good knowledge across multiple dimensions of symptoms, prevention and risk, with only 9.2% for women having good symptom and risk knowledge–S1 Table. Only 10.9% of compound heads and 7.8% of women scored good in all 3 dimensions of COVID-19 knowledge.