Table 2.
Diarrhoea during the 30 days prior to being interviewed at the household level for households with and without cisterns, with a subgroup analysis of households with at least one person experiencing one or more episodes of diarrhoea
| |
Households |
Households with Cisterns |
Households without Cisterns |
p-value† |
All cases |
Household cases with Cisterns |
Household cases without Cisterns |
p-value†† |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 769) | (n = 376) | (n = 393) | (n = 301) | (n =121) | (n = 180) | |||
|
Households with at least one person experiencing diarrhoea at least once (Number and %) | ||||||||
| |
301 |
121 (32.2%) |
180 (45.8%) |
<0.001 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| (39.1%) | ||||||||
|
Frequency of people experiencing diarrhoea per household (%) | ||||||||
| Mean percent of people with diarrhoea per household and SD |
15.5% |
11.5% |
19.3% |
<0.001 |
39.5% |
35.8% |
42.1% |
0.019 |
| SD 0.20 |
SD 0.27 |
SD 0.20 |
SD 0.24 |
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|
Household episodes (Number) | ||||||||
| Mean number of diarrhoeal episodes per household and SD |
1.05 |
0.85 |
1.25 |
0.004 |
2.69 |
2.64 |
2.72 |
0.766 |
| SD 1.74 |
SD 2.04 |
SD 2.16 |
SD 2.25 |
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| Mean number of household diarrhoeal episodes per person and SD |
0.23 |
0.18 |
0.28 |
0.001 |
0.60 |
0.57 |
0.61 |
0.462 |
| SD 0.37 | SD 0.43 | SD 0.46 | SD 0.46 | |||||
SD: standard deviation.
† Comparison between households with and without cisterns using Pearson’s Chi-squared test for differences in prevalence and two-way t-test for differences in means.
†† Comparison between households with and without cisterns among cases using two-way t-test for differences in means.