Incremental impact on malaria incidence following indoor residual spraying in a highly endemic area with high standard ITN access in Mozambique: results from a cluster‐randomized study

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the children in the active cohort, Mopeia, Mozambique

	Spray Status		p-value
	No-IRS	IRS	p-value
Cluster Characteristics (N = 86)
Km to nearest health facility^a	6.1 (4.7) [43]	6.8 (4.3) [43]	0.4828 ^b
Household Characteristics (N = 1536) ^e
ITN ownership ^c	470 / 765 (61.4%)	487 / 771 (63.2%)	0.4850 ^d
Number of ITNs in the household ^a	1.4 (0.7) [469]	1.3 (0.6) [486]	0.0868 ^b
Electricity in the household ^c	13 / 765 (1.7%)	8 / 771 (1.0%)	0.2641 ^d
Head of household with any formal education ^c	321 / 765 (42.0%)	308 / 771 (39.9%)	0.4225 ^d
Head of household farmer c	615 / 765 (80.4%)	653 / 771 (84.7%)	0.0263 ^d
Households enrolled (N = 1305) ^e
Siblings enrolled ^c	106 / 645 (16.4%)	106 / 660 (16.1%)	0.8549 ^d
Children enrolled (N = 1536) ^e
Gender: female ^c	362 / 765 (47.3%)	389 / 771 (50.5%)	0.2193 ^d
Age (months) at enrolment ^a	32.4 (16.0) [765]	31.2 (16.2) [771]	0.1396 ^b
Cluster size ^c
Small	243 (31· 8%)	247 (32.0%)	0.9917 ^d
Medium	252 (32.9%)	252 (32.7%)
Large	270 (35.3%)	272 (35.3%)
RDT positive ^c	474 / 765 (62.0%)	499 / 771 (64.7%)	0.2616 ^d

^aArithmetic Mean (SD) [n], ^bt-test, ^cn (Column percentage), ^dChi-squared test, ^eNote that more than one child per household could be recruited, resulting in different denominators for children in the cohort and households in the cohort

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