Overcoming practical challenges to pilot Sierra Leone’s first school-based distribution of piperonyl butoxide-synergist ITNs: findings from a 2023 assessment in Kono district

Table 6 Other nets discarded since the SBD in the intervention group

	N = 458
Households that discarded one or more non-SBD net since receiving an SBD net	17.0%
Of households that discarded one or more non-SBD nets since receiving an SBD net
Mean number discarded nets per household	2.1
What happened to the nets^a	N = 134
Net was destroyed accidentally	25.0%
Net was thrown away	50.0%
Material used for other purpose	25.0%
Why were the non-SBD nets thrown away?^b	N = 76
Net was too torn, too many holes	100.0%
Proportion of nets for which the respondent reported that would have been kept if an SBD net was not received	56.6%

^aNo responses ITNs being stolen, sold, given away to relatives/others, used by other family members elsewhere, other or don’t know
^bNo responses for ITNs being too dirty, not needed, unliked, sold because money was needed, other, or don’t know

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