Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the per-protocol sample.
|
Characteristics |
Participants, No. (%) |
P-valuei |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention group (n = 254) | Control group (n = 385) | |||
| Cluster level, No. | ||||
| Wards | 7 | 7 | ||
| Female community health workers | 16 | 0 | ||
| Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||
| Age | 30–34 years | 21 (8.2) | 25 (6.5) | 0.64 |
| 35–39 years | 37 (14.6) | 72 (18.7) | ||
| 40–44 years | 52 (20.5) | 81 (21.0) | ||
| 45–49 years | 55 (21.7) | 84 (21.8) | ||
| 50–54 years | 41 (16.1) | 64 (16.6) | ||
| 55–60 years | 48 (18.9) | 59 (15.4) | ||
| Literacy | Illiterate | 12 (4.7) | 27 (7.0) | 0.24 |
| Literatea | 242 (95.3) | 358 (93.0) | ||
| Marital status | Unmarriedb | 30 (11.8) | 50 (13.0) | 0.66 |
| Married | 224 (88.2) | 335 (87.0) | ||
| Ethnicity | Dalitc | 32 (12.6) | 63 (16.3) | <0.01 |
| Disadvantaged janajatid | 30 (11.8) | 70 (18.2) | ||
| Relatively advantaged janajatie | 34 (13.4) | 68 (17.7) | ||
| Upper caste groupsf | 158 (62.2) | 184 (47.8) | ||
| Monthly household incomeg | <US$ 256 | 153 (60.2) | 242 (62.9) | 0.51 |
| ≥US$ 256 | 101 (39.8) | 143 (37.1) | ||
| CCSUh at baseline | Yes | 108 (42.5) | 174 (45.2) | 0.51 |
| No | 146 (57.5) | 211 (54.8) | ||
Note: aLiterate = (No formal education – can read and write, Primary, Secondary, Intermediate and equivalent, Graduate and equivalent); bUnmarried: (Unmarried, separated, divorced, widow); cDalit: (Bishwokarma, Gandarba, Pariyar, Sarki, Sunar); dDisadvantaged Janajati: (Kumal, Magar, Sherpa, Tamang); eRelatively Advantaged Janajati: (Gurung, Newar, Thakali); fUpper caste groups: (Brahmin, Chhetri, Sanyasi, Thakuri) (Bhandari et al., 2014); gMonthly household income [US$<256 (NPR 1 = 0.0085 USD, 27 September 2020): 30,121 NPR (Nepal Rastra Bank, 2016)]; hCCSU – Cervical Cancer Screening Uptake; iP-value < 0.05, statistically significant.