Individual and Community Factors Associated with Household Insecticide-Treated Bednet Usage in the Sunyani West District of Ghana Two Years after Mass Distribution

Table 1

Demographic factors associated with ITN use among household respondents in the Sunyani West district, June 2017.

Variable	ITN use		Chi-square	value
	Yes	No
Sex
Male	43 (75.44%)	14 (25.56%)	10.21	0.001
Female	188 (52.81%)	168 (47.19%)
Age
18–49	181 (45.48%)	151 (54.52%)	5.06	0.08
50–64	43 (32.81%)	21 (67.19%)
65+	7 (58.82%)	10 (41.18%)
Marital status
Married	161 (54.76%)	133 (45.24%)		0.097
Single	53 (58.24%)	38 (41.76%)
Divorced	6 (40.00%)	9 (60.00%)
Widowed	11 (84.64%)	2 (15.38%)
Education
No formal education	57 (63.33%)	33 (36.67%)	3.65	0.301
Primary/JSS	97 (56.07%)	76 (43.93%)
Secondary/Vocational	48 (53.33%)	42 (46.67%)
Tertiary	29 (48.33%)	31 (51.67%)
Occupation
Public	41 (51.90)	38 (48.01%)	12. 23	0.007
Private	40 (76.92%)	12 (23.08%)
Self-employed	132 (51.97%)	122 (48.03)
Unemployed	18 (64.29%)	10 (35.71%)
Religion
Christian	186 (52.99%)	165 (47.01%)		0.001
Moslem	37 (72.55%)	14 (27.42%)
Traditionalist	8 (100.00%)	0 (0.00%)
Others	0 (0.00)	3 (100.00)

Fisher’s exact test.