Assessing health-seeking behaviour and malaria prevention practices among communities in four districts of the Volta Region of Ghana

Table 5 Characteristics of participants stratified by the ownership and usage of ITN

Characteristics	Ownership of ITN		P-value	Usage of ITN		P-value
Characteristics	Yes	No		Yes	No	P-value
Gender
Male	941 [86.1]	152 [13.9]	≤ 0.001	625 [66.4]	316 [33.6]	0.13
Female	1293 [92.4]	107 [7.6]	≤ 0.001	903 [69.8]	390 [30.2]	0.13
Age
18–29	533 [87.1]	79 [12.9]	0.16	358 [67.2]	175 [32.8]	0.04
30–39	546 [90.2]	59 [ [9.8]		390 [71.4]	156 [28.6]
40–49	464 [91.2]	45 [8.8]		294 [63.4]	170 [36.6]
50–59	355 [90.6]	37 [9.4]		247 [69.6]	108 [30.4]
60–69	198 [88.4]	26 [11.6]		138 [69.7]	60 [30.3]
≥ 70	138 [91.4]	13 [8.6]		101 [73.2]	37 [26.8]
Districts
Ketu South	720 [86.3]	114 [13.7]	≤ 0.001	477 [66.3]	243 [33.7]	≤ 0.001
Ho West	608 [90.6]	63 [9.4]		398 [65.5]	210 [34.5]
Hohoe	482 [88.9]	60 [11.1]		298 [61.8]	184 [38.2]
Nkwanta South	424 [95.1]	22 [4.9]		355 [83.7]	69 [16.3]
Religion
Christianity	1925 [89.4]	229 [10.6]	0.1	1280 [66.5]	645 [35.5]	≤ 0.001
Islam	84 [87.5]	12 [12.5]		66 [78.6]	18 [21.4]
Traditional	225 [92.6]	18 [7.4]		182 [80.9]	43 [19.1]
Education
None	329 [92.2]	28 [7.8]	0.003	265 [80.5]	64 [19.4]	≤ 0.001
Primary	329 [88.4]	43 [11.6]		244 [74.2]	85 [25.8]
JHS	907 [91.2]	87 [8.8]		609 [67.1]	298 [32.9]
SHS	460 [86.5]	72 [13.5]		290 [63.0]	170 [37.0]
Tertiary	209 [87.8]	29 [12.2]		120 [57.4]	89 [42.6]
Occupation
Farming	688 [92.7]	54 [7.3]	≤ 0.001	531 [77.2]	157 [22.8]	≤ 0.001
Trading	620 [90.5]	65 [9.5]		398 [64.2]	222 [35.8]
Skilled labour	383 [87.6]	54 [12.4]		244 [63.7]	139 [36.3]
Unskilled labour	115 [82.7]	24 [17.3]		82 [71.3]	33 [28.7]
Civil servants	134 [86.5]	21 [13.5]		85 [63.4]	49 [36.6]
Unemployed	244 [86.8]	37 [13.2]		154 [63.1]	90 [36.9]
Others	50 [92.6]	4 [7.4		34 [68]	16 [32.0]

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