Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of the intent-to-treat sample.
|
Characteristics |
Participants, No. (%) |
P-valuei |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention group (n = 277) | Control group (n = 413) | |||
| Cluster level, No. | ||||
| Wards | 7 | 7 | ||
| Female community health workers | 16 | 0 | ||
| Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||
| Age | 30–34 years | 22 (7.9) | 28 (6.8) | 0.87 |
| 35–39 years | 42 (15.2) | 74 (17.9) | ||
| 40–44 years | 56 (20.2) | 87 (21.1) | ||
| 45–49 years | 58 (20.9) | 88 (21.3) | ||
| 50–54 years | 47 (17.0) | 70 (16.9) | ||
| 55–60 years | 52 (18.8) | 66 (16.0) | ||
| Literacy | Illiterate | 14 (5.1) | 28 (6.8) | 0.35 |
| Literatea | 263 (94.9) | 385 (93.2) | ||
| Marital status | Unmarriedb | 36 (13.0) | 57 (13.8) | 0.76 |
| Married | 241 (87.0) | 356 (86.2) | ||
| Ethnicity | Dalitc | 36 (13.0) | 67 (16.2) | 0.01 |
| Disadvantaged janajatid | 36 (13.0) | 77 (18.6) | ||
| Relatively advantaged janajatie | 39 (14.1) | 73 (17.7) | ||
| Upper caste groupsf | 166 (59.9) | 196 (47.5) | ||
| Monthly household incomeg | <US$ 256 | 168 (60.6) | 260 (62.9) | 0.54 |
| ≥US$ 256 | 109 (39.4) | 153 (37.1) | ||
| CCSUh at baseline | Yes | 116 (41.9) | 182 (44.1) | 0.57 |
| No | 161 (58.1) | 231 (55.9) | ||
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.