Protective effects of Olyset® Net on Plasmodium falciparum infection after three years of distribution in western Kenya

Table 1 Association of each explanatory variable with DawaPlus® 2.0 and Olyset®Net

Parameter	DawaPlus® 2.0 n = 180 (70.9)^a	Olyset®Net n = 74 (29.1)	p-value
Age	8.24 ± 0.26²	8.89 ± 0.42	0.19
Density of female anophelines in the room (/m²)	1.32 ± 0.16²	0.68 ± 0.09	0.09
Gap of eaves
Close	10 (5.6)^a	14 (18.9)	< 0.01*
Open	170 (94.4)	60 (81.1)	< 0.01*
Gender
Female	78 (43.3)^a	38 (51.4)	0.24
Male	102 (56.7)	36 (48.6)	0.24
Material of wall
Other than mud	18 (10.0)^a	15 (20.3)	0.03*
Mud	162 (90.0)	59 (79.7)	0.03*
PHI^a
On the roof	0 (0–1599)^c	0 (0–2061)	0.12
On the sides	0 (0–5529)^c	0 (0–7497)	< 0.01*
No. of persons sharing a net
Share with none or 1 person	73 (40.6)^a	47 (63.5)	< 0.01*
Share with 2 persons or more	107 (59.4)	27 (36.5)	< 0.01*
Sleeping location
Without bed	151 (83.9)^a	55 (74.3)	0.08
With bed	29 (16.1)	19 (25.7)	0.08
Socioeconomic status	0 ± 0.02^b	0.15 ± 0.04	0.01*

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