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Table 1 Characteristics of study participants and individual overnight trips

From: Association between recent overnight travel and use of long-lasting insecticidal nets in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study in Tororo

Characteristic

Age categories

All ages

< 5 years

5–15 years

> 15 years

Characteristics of study participantsa

 All participants

531

177

193

161

 Female gender, n (% among all participants)

278 (52.4%)

97 (54.8%)

85 (44.0%)

96 (59.6%)

 Participants with any overnight trip, n (% total participants)

123 (23.2%)

39 (22.0%)

21 (11.1%)

63 (39.1%)

 Female gender, n (% among participants with any travel)

81 (65.9%)

20 (51.3%)

13 (61.9%)

48 (76.2%)

 Proportion of travellers from least poor households

43 (35.0%)

10 (25.6%)

7 (33.3%)

26 (41.3%)

 Proportion of non-travellers from least poor households

137 (33.6%)

50 (36.2%)

56 (32.6%)

31 (31.6%)

Characteristics of individual overnight tripsb

 Number of overnight trips

210

53

33

124

 Number of trips made by individual participants, n

    

  1 trip

79

25

17

37

  2 trips

18

5

1

12

  3 trips

5

2

2

1

  4 or more trips

20

3

2

15

 Duration of each trip in nights away, median (range)

5 (1-115)

7(1-53)

17 (1-53)

3 (1-115)

 Duration of travel categories, n (% total trips)

    

  1 night

41 (19.5%)

7 (13.2%)

1 (3.0%)

33 (26.6%)

  2–3 nights

49 (23.3%)

9 (17.0%)

4 (12.1%)

36 (29.0%)

  4–7 nights

43 (20.5%)

11 (20.8%)

6 (18.2%)

26 (21.0%)

  More than 7 nights

77 (36.7%)

26 (49.1%)

22 (66.7%)

29 (23.4%)

 Destination of travel, n (% total trips)

    

  Tororo (IRS district)

148 (70.5%)

37 (69.8%)

21 (63.6%)

90 (72.6%)

  Other IRS districts

7 (3.3%)

1 (1.9%)

1 (3.0%)

5 (4.0%)

  Kampala (no IRS)

17 (8.1%)

5 (9.4%)

7 (21.2%)

5 (4.0%)

  Other non-IRS districts

38 (18.1%)

10 (18.9%)

4 (12.1%)

24 (19.4%)

 Reason for travel, n (% total trips)

    

  Visiting relatives

105 (50.0%)

20 (37.7%)

26 (78.8%)

59 (47.6%)

  Funeral rite

45 (21.4%)

1 (1.9%)

0

44 (35.5%)

  Accompanying parents

39 (18.6%)

32 (60.4%)

7 (21.2%)

0

  Caring for the sick

10 (4.8%)

0

0

10 (8.1%)

  Business

8 (3.8%)

0

0

8 (6.5%)

  Pleasure

2 (1.0%)

0

0

2 (1.6%)

  Attending school

1 (0.5%)

0

0

1 (0.8%)

 Where participant stayed, n (% total trips)

    

  Friend/relative’s home

175 (83.3%)

49 (92.5%)

32 (97.0%)

94 (75.8%)

  Hospital

13 (6.2%)

2 (3.8%)

1 (3.0%)

10 (8.1%)

  Camp or Gardens

22 (10.5%)

2 (3.8%)

0

20 (16.1%)

  1. aBased on age at the time of study enrolment
  2. bBased on age at the time of travel