Participants’ characteristics (demographics).

<p>Participants’ characteristics (demographics).</p

Vaccination coverage^*.

<p>*Out of the 244 participants, 199 (81.6%) had the vaccination cards for their youngest children that were alive, whilst 15 (18.4%) did not have; 234 (95.9%) received most of their vaccinations in regional clinics, 5 (2.0%) hospitals, and 5 (2.0%) from Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) clinics.</p><p>**Actual vaccination coverage calculated only for children with vaccination cards and were due for the vaccination.</p><p>***Vaccination coverage calculated for all children with vaccination cards irrespective of whether they were due for the vaccination or not.</p><p>****Failure of vaccination calculated for children with vaccination cards irrespective of whether they were due for the vaccination or not.</p><p>Vaccination coverage^{<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105936#nt109" target="_blank">*</a>}.</p

Household Information (Responses of Interviewee).

<p>*HH- Household.</p><p>**Child-Bearing age = 15 to 45 years of age.</p><p>***Out of the 244 participants, 5 (2.0%) responded that the bed nets did not need impregnation at the time of the study, 2 (0.8%) responded that the bed nets were treated within the last six months, 165 (67.6%) said the nets were never treated, 61 (25.0%) didn’t know whether the nets were treated or not; whilst 11 (4.5%) had no bed nets.^.</p><p>Household Information (Responses of Interviewee).</p

Pregnancy and antenatal care (categorical variables).

<p>Pregnancy and antenatal care (categorical variables).</p

Health knowledge^*.

<p>*Health Knowledge score calculated from the various health knowledge questions with each question contributing a maximum of one point. Expressed in percentages, the results gave a minimum of 18%, maximum of 91%, with mean of 61.6, median 63.3 and standard deviation 14.7.</p><p>Health knowledge^{<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105936#nt104" target="_blank">*</a>}.</p

Key Variables collected in each section.

<p>Key Variables collected in each section.</p

Pregnancy and antenatal care (continuous variables).

<p>Pregnancy and antenatal care (continuous variables).</p

Household information (interviewer’s direct observation).

<p>Household information (interviewer’s direct observation).</p

Results of Linear regressions for health knowledge score (multivariable model).

a<p>Change in the average health knowledge score for a unit increase in the continuous variables or being in a category versus the baseline category for categorical variables.</p><p>Results of Linear regressions for health knowledge score (multivariable model).</p

Results of Linear regressions for health knowledge score (univariable model).

a<p>Change in the average health knowledge score for a unit increase in the continuous variables or being in a category versus the baseline category for categorical variables.</p>b<p>Husbands’ overall score out of the total roles of the husband included in the questionnaire.</p><p>Results of Linear regressions for health knowledge score (univariable model).</p