Effectiveness of post-campaign, door-to-door, hang-up, and communication interventions to increase long-lasting, insecticidal bed net utilization in Togo (2011–2012): a cluster randomized, control trial

Table 3 Reasons for non-use

Reason given by respondent		Study arm				Total
		Control	HU	HU + 1 DTD	HU + 2 DTD
N	Nov	710	576	563		1,849
	Jan	607	425	403		1,435
	Jun	498	459	239	203	1,399
All already sleeping under a net	Nov	37.0	29.3	35.3		33.5
	Jan	18.3	20.9	20.1		19.6
	Jun	17.7	15.9	17.2	27.1	18.4
Unable to hang (including no place, materials or knowledge)¹	Nov	23.8	32.5	26.8		28.1
	Jan	6.9	4.0	4.5		5.4
	Jun	3.4	2.6	2.5	3.0	2.9
Too damaged or dirty	Nov	7.4	11.2	11.4		10.1
	Jan	5.1	6.6	10.9		7.2
	Jun	5.2	5.4	5.4	8.4	5.8
Normal user absent/reserved for guests²	Nov	10.2	8.9	8.2		9.1
	Jan	6.6	10.6	10.7		8.9
	Jun	10.0	10.7	15.1	11.8	11.4
Too hot/no mosquitoes/no malaria	Nov	8.3	6.7	10.1		8.3
NB: asked only of people in the 2nd survey	Jan	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
	Jun	4.2	5.0	7.5	5.9	5.3
Negative experience	Nov	2.1	4.6	1.6		2.9
NB: asked only of people after 1st survey
Not yet hung up/kept as a reserve net³	Nov	1.9	2.4	1.6		2.0
	Jan	30.5	25.2	26.3		27.7
	Jun	25.3	26.6	25.1	19.7	24.9
Replaced by a new one³	Nov	0.8	0.2	1.1		0.7
	Jan	6.4	8.9	10.2		8.2
	Jun	12.2	15.0	18.4	11.8	14.2
Currently being washed or dried³	Nov	0.6	0.4	0.3		0.4
	Jan	5.6	5.9	3.0		4.9
	Jun	7.2	9.2	2.5	6.9	7.0
User has moved or given to someone else⁴	Nov	1.8	1.1	0.6		1.1
Temporarily outside of the household⁴	Nov	0.6	0.0	0,2		0.3
Used for other purposes⁵	Nov	2.7	1.7	1.4		1.9
Don’t know	Nov	2.5	0.3	0.0		0.9
NB: no one responded "Don’t know" in 2nd survey	Jan	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0
	Jun	2.2	0.4	0.8	1.5	1.3
Other⁶	Nov	0.2	0.8	1.5		0.8
	Jan	20.6	17.9	14.4		18.0
	Jun	12.4	9.2	5.4	3.9	8.9

¹Original category "Nowhere to hang" was expanded to include all aspects of "Unable to hang" reported when the enumerator specified "Other" in the first survey.
²Original category "Normal user absent" was combined with "kept for company", which was often reported when the enumerator specified "Other" in the first survey.
³New category created and kept for subsequent surveys based on the answers frequently given when specifying "Other" in the first survey.
⁴New category created based on the answers frequently given when specifying "Other" in the first survey but not included as a separate category for subsequent surveys.
⁵Not included as a separate category for subsequent surveys.
⁶ For the first survey, "Other" excludes the answers combined into new categories.
The relative proportions of answers given for the main reason why a particular net was not used or why a particular person did not use a net the previous night are provided below. Proportions (unweighted) are given by study arm for each evaluation.

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