Table 2 Awareness of mobilisation activities among intervention and control households (n = 807)
Intervention (n = 408) | Control (n = 399) | Difference | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | % | ||
Mean age of respondent (sd) | 45 (15) | 41 (14) | ||||
Respondent is female | 249 | 61 | 222 | 56 | 5 | |
Perceived benefits of having a toilet | ||||||
Convenient when it rains or during floods | 187 | 46 | 193 | 48 | −2 | 0.61 |
Time saving from walking to OD sites | 241 | 59 | 189 | 47 | 12 | 0.02 |
Health benefits | 141 | 35 | 114 | 29 | 6 | 0.18 |
Safety | 128 | 31 | 131 | 33 | −2 | 0.82 |
Prevent contaminating the environment | 70 | 17 | 87 | 22 | −5 | 0.15 |
Convenient at night | 118 | 29 | 138 | 35 | −6 | 0.47 |
Convenient for elderly | 46 | 11 | 48 | 12 | −1 | 0.73 |
Convenient for children | 47 | 12 | 75 | 19 | −7 | 0.01 |
Convenient when sick | 19 | 5 | 55 | 14 | −9 | 0.02 |
Convenient for disabled person | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | −1 | 0.51 |
Safer for women | 71 | 17 | 92 | 23 | −6 | 0.04 |
Give privacy to women | 82 | 20 | 84 | 21 | −1 | 0.98 |
Cost saving | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | −4 | <0.01 |
Status improved | 8 | 2 | 16 | 4 | −2 | 0.04 |
Shame | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | <0.01 |
Good for married women | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | <0.01 |
Heard about sanitation campaign | 373 | 91 | 194 | 49 | 42 | <0.001 |
Heard about campaign from (n = 567) | ||||||
NGO | 238 | 64 | 38 | 20 | 44 | <0.001 |
VWSC | 63 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 | <0.001 |
Ward member | 21 | 6 | 30 | 15 | −9 | <0.01 |
Anganwadi worker | 12 | 3 | 16 | 8 | −5 | 0.09 |
ASHA | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.02 |
School teacher | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.09 |
Adolescent girls committee | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.19 |
Self-help group | 5 | 1 | 9 | 5 | −4 | 0.06 |
Neighbours | 34 | 9 | 59 | 30 | −21 | <0.001 |
Family | 10 | 3 | 23 | 12 | −9 | <0.01 |
Friends | 1 | 0 | 19 | 10 | −10 | <0.001 |
Heard or seen village walk or mapping exercise | 26 | 6 | 38 | 10 | −4 | 0.04 |
Heard of wealth ranking exercise | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | −1 | 0.09 |
Heard of village water and sanitation committee | 207 | 51 | 37 | 9 | 42 | <0.001 |
Can cite name of at least one VWSC member | 169 | 41 | 26 | 7 | 34 | <0.001 |
Can explain what VWSC members do | 138 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 32 | <0.001 |
Heard of adolescent girls group | 93 | 23 | 33 | 8 | 15 | <0.01 |
Heard or seen school children rally | 147 | 36 | 173 | 43 | −7 | 0.10 |
Seen wall paintings | 178 | 44 | 28 | 7 | 37 | <0.001 |
Remember content of wall painting (n = 206) | ||||||
Transmission of diarrhoea | 103 | 57 | 6 | 21 | 36 | <0.01 |
Latrine cost breakdown | 104 | 57 | 2 | 8 | 49 | 0.01 |
Village map | 68 | 38 | 3 | 11 | 27 | 0.24 |
Received home visit about sanitation in past 3 mo | 242 | 65 | 12 | 3 | 230 | <0.001 |
Person who came at last visit | ||||||
NGO staff | 257 | 63 | 11 | 3 | 60 | <0.001 |
VWSC member | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.21 |
Ward member | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | −1 | <0.01 |
Anganwadi worker | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.46 |
ASHA | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.36 |
SHG member | 25 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0.97 |
Remember being discussed during last visit | ||||||
Contribution amount | 285 | 70 | 4 | 1 | 69 | 0.001 |
Latrine construction logistics | 211 | 52 | 10 | 3 | 49 | 0.04 |
How to use and maintain latrine | 108 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 0.91 |
Benefits of having a latrine | 80 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0.88 |
Inform about meetings | 37 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.66 |
Kumari committee | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.12 |