Table 3.
Cross-tabulation of demographic and wealth index characteristics with use of SP for IPTp of malaria
| Demographic, geographic and wealth index characteristics |
Women who took SP for malaria prevention in pregnancy; n(%) |
p-value | |
| Age category | 15–19 | 260 (20.6) | <0.001 |
| 20–24 | 1037 (26.6) | ||
| 25–29 | 1396 (26.5) | ||
| 30–34 | 1144 (27.4) | ||
| 35–39 | 811 (25.6) | ||
| 40–44 | 380 (22.8) | ||
| 45–49 | 152 (22.1) | ||
| Highest educational level |
No education | 1975 (21.6) | <0.001 |
| Primary | 1071 (26.2) | ||
| Secondary | 1630 (29.4) | ||
| Higher | 504 (37.6) | ||
| Literacy | Cannot read at all | 2421 (21.5) | <0.001* |
| Able to read only parts of sentence |
453 (32.5) | ||
| Able to read whole sentence |
2268 (31.2) | ||
| Not assessed | 6 (8.1) | ||
| Blind/visually impaired |
1 (14.3) | ||
| Region | North Central | 808 (26.2) | <0.001 |
| North East | 1140 (28.6) | ||
| North West | 1678 (27.1) | ||
| South East | 414 (24.2) | ||
| South South | 439 (17.7) | ||
| South West | 701 (26.3) | ||
| Type of place of residence |
Urban | 2232 (33.0) | <0.001 |
| Rural | 2948 (22.1) | ||
| Wealth index | Poorest | 672 (15.4) | <0.001 |
| Poorer | 991 (21.6) | ||
| Middle | 1123 (27.7) | ||
| Richer | 1244 (32.9) | ||
| Richest | 1150 (34.5) | ||
| Media exposure |
No exposure | 1323 (19.4) | <0.001 |
| Exposed to 1 source only |
1202 (24.8) | ||
| Exposed to any 2 sources |
1718 (29.4) | ||
| Exposed to all 3 sources |
937 (36.1) | ||
*
Fisher's exact test