Table 1.

ITN use among children under five by background characteristics

Background characteristic	N	% (95% CI)	Chi square p-value
Caregiver exposed to at least one ITN messagea			0.0004
No	1773	55.9 (52.7–59.1)
Yes	302	67.9 (61.4–73.8)
Sex of child			0.8894
Male	1057	58.1 (54.4–61.7)
Female	1018	57.7 (53.5–61.9)
Age of child			0.2991
0–11 months	285	54.5 (46.4–62.3)
12–23 months	603	57.9 (52.9–62.8)
24–35 months	532	62.2 (57.1–67.0)
36–47 months	384	54.1 (51.6–62.9)
48–59 months	271	57.9 (46.6–61.4)
Caregiver’s educational attainment			< 0.0001
No formal education	890	67.7 (63.3–71.9)
Primary education	365	54.9 (48.7–60.9)
Secondary or higher education	820	47.9 (43.6–51.9)
Place of residence			0.0005
Urban	728	49.9 (44.8–55.1)
Rural	1347	62.0 (58.0–65.9)
Wealth quintile			< 0.0001
Highest	393	40.5 (35.2–46.1)
Fourth	411	47.5 (41.6–53.6)
Middle	428	60.0 (54.5–65.3)
Second	444	67.3 (60.8–73.2)
Lowest	399	69.9 (64.0–75.3)
Region			< 0.0001
North Central	363	60.7 (53.5–67.5)
North East	424	61.0 (55.1–66.6)
North West	596	70.5 (64.6–75.8)
South East	184	33.3 (24.0–44.1)
South South	250	45.4 (36.9–54.3)
South West	258	41.7 (35.8–47.8)
Adequate number of ITNs in householdb			< 0.0001
No	1352	51.6 (48.3–55.0)
Yes	723	69.1 (64.4–73.5)
Household owns radio			0.2346
No	814	59.7 (55.2–64.1)
Yes	1261	56.7 (53.2–60.2)
Household owns television			< 0.0001
No	1101	66.3 (61.9–70.3)
Yes	974	47.4 (43.6–51.2)

In Nigeria almost all ITNs are long-lasting insecticide-treated net (LLINs). The authors used the term ITN because the analysis was conducted using data on ITNs, which include LLINs and ITNs that have been soaked with insecticide within the past 12 months

ITN insecticide-treated bed net, CI confidence interval

p-values that are significant at the 0.05 level are italic

^aDuring the 6 months preceding the survey

^bHousehold owns at least one ITN for every two household members