Table 2 Baseline characteristics of surveyed respondents
Variable | Intervention (n = 1066) | Control (n = 1077) | Variable | Intervention (n = 1066) | Control (n = 1077) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
Gender (p = 0.34) | Religion*(p = 0.00) | |||||||||
Male | 127 | 11.9 | 143 | 13.3 | Buddhism | 497 | 46.6 | 167 | 15.5 | |
Female | 939 | 88.1 | 934 | 86.7 | Protestant | 0 | 0 | 48 | 4.5 | |
Age* (years) (p = 0.01) | Catholic | 103 | 9.7 | 19 | 1.8 | |||||
15-19 | 133 | 12.5 | 83 | 7.7 | Praying ancestors | 67 | 6.3 | 168 | 15.6 | |
20-29 | 272 | 25.5 | 256 | 23.8 | Non-religion | 398 | 37.3 | 668 | 62 | |
30-39 | 374 | 35.1 | 434 | 40.3 | Other | 1 | 0.1 | 7 | 0.6 | |
40-49 | 287 | 26.9 | 304 | 28.2 | Education*(p = 0.00) | |||||
Marital status* (p = 0.00) | Secondary or less | 667 | 62.6 | 766 | 71.1 | |||||
Single | 268 | 25.1 | 148 | 13.7 | High or more | 399 | 37.4 | 311 | 28.9 | |
Other | 798 | 74.9 | 929 | 86.3 | Occupation*(p = 0.00) | |||||
Number of children* (p = 0.00) | Farmer/Fishery | 161 | 15.1 | 430 | 39.3 | |||||
None | 236 | 22.1 | 98 | 9.1 | Student | 134 | 12.6 | 79 | 7.3 | |
1-2 | 539 | 50.6 | 658 | 61.1 | Housewife/unemployed | 399 | 37.4 | 302 | 28.0 | |
More than 2 | 291 | 27.3 | 321 | 29.8 | Other | 372 | 34.9 | 266 | 24.7 | |
Residential location (p = 0.38) | ||||||||||
Urban | 355 | 33.3 | 378 | 35.0 | ||||||
Rural | 711 | 66.7 | 699 | 65.0 | ||||||