Table 3.
Percentage distribution of FGDs participants that inspected WHO “too torn” nets and their decision to keep or discard the nets
| Variables | WHO too torn condition n (%) | Discard n (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covariates | Good* | Damaged‡ | Too torn† | Yes | No |
| Age group | |||||
| 40–60 | 185 (41) | 72 (16) | 191 (43) | 192 (43) | 256 (57) |
| 18–39 | 123 (33) | 30 (8) | 218 (59) | 245 (66) | 126 (34) |
| Gender | |||||
| Men | 90 (27) | 26 (8) | 220 (65) | 240 (71) | 96 (29) |
| Women | 218 (45) | 76 (16) | 189 (39) | 197 (41) | 286 (59) |
| Household size | |||||
| 1–5 residents | 190 (38) | 67 (14) | 240 (48) | 250 (50) | 247 (50) |
| 6 and above residents | 118 (37) | 35 (11) | 169 (53) | 187 (58) | 135 (42) |
| Education | |||||
| No formal education | 64 (57) | 15 (13) | 33 (30) | 38 (34) | 74 (66) |
| Formal education | 244 (35) | 87 (12) | 376 (53) | 399 (56) | 308 (44) |
| Household SES | |||||
| Lowest | 115 (44) | 37 (14) | 107 (41) | 109 (42) | 150 (58) |
| Middle | 105 (41) | 36 (13) | 118 (46) | 125 (48) | 134 (52) |
| Highest | 71 (27) | 24 (9) | 171 (64) | 188 (71) | 78 (29) |
| Study villages | |||||
| Kiwangwa | 57 (27) | 51 (24) | 102 (49) | 120 (57) | 90 (43) |
| Bago | 103 (49) | 21 (10) | 86 (41) | 92 (44) | 118 (56) |
| Msinune | 95 (43) | 12 (5) | 117 (52) | 121 (54) | 103 (46) |
| Mwavi | 53 (31) | 18 (10) | 104 (59) | 104 (59) | 71 (41) |
| Total | 308 (38) | 102 (12) | 409 (50) | 437 (53) | 382 (47) |
* Bed net of a total hole surface area of < 0.001m2 (pHI < 64)
‡ Bed net of a total surface, ≤ 0.1m2 (pHI ≤ 642)
† Bed net of a total surface area of > 0.1 m 2(pHI > 642)