Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of participants, by frequency of vaginal douching.

Variables	Frequency of douching			P-value
	Never/once a month or less	Several times a week/once a day	More than once a day
	n = 105	n = 50	n = 296
Age group (years)
<19	10 (9.5)	3 (6.0)	28 (9.5)	0.56
20–24	38 (36.2)	16 (32.0)	120 (40.5)
25–29	22 (21.0)	12 (24.0)	71 (24.0)
≥30	35 (33.3)	19 (38.0)	77 (26.0)
Present marital status
Married	103 (98.1)	50 (100.0)	290 (98.0)	0.60
Other	2 (1.9)	0 (0.0)	6 (2.0)
Occupational status
Housewife/farmer	83 (79.0)	41 (82.0)	218 (73.6)	0.30
Others	22 (21.0)	9 (18.0)	78 (26.4)
Place of residence
Urban	33 (31.4)	34 (68.0)	164 (55.4)	<0.001
Rural	72 (68.6)	16 (32.0)	132 (44.6)

Numbers in parentheses are percentages.

P values were determined by using the chi-square test or Fisher exact test.