Table 4 Linear regression estimates of the effect of a one-unit increase in scale/factor values on the effect estimate of the frequency of suppression

From: Sanitation-related withholding and suppression among women in urban Uganda and India

Scale/factor score

Kampala (n = 440)

Tiruchirappalli (n = 350)

Effect estimate

95% CI

Effect estimate

95% CI

Privacy scale

0.03

−0.06 to 0.12

0.20

0.08 to 0.32

Safety and security scale

0.02

−0.06 to 0.11

0.09

0.00 to 0.18

Safety and security factor 1: perceptions of women’s risk of harm when going for sanitation

−0.19

−0.29 to −0.10

0.00

−0.09 to 0.09

Safety and security factor 2: perceptions of women’s risk of harm when going to sanitation-related meetings

0.13

0.03 to 0.22

0.01

−0.08 to 0.10

Safety and security factor 3: perceptions of women’s risk of domestic violence related to sanitation

0.07

−0.01 to 0.14

0.00

−0.07 to 0.07

Safety and security factor 4: perceptions of own risk of harm when going for sanitation

0.04

−0.04 to 0.13

0.13

0.06 to 0.21

Safety and security factor 5: perceptions of general personal safety related to sanitation

−0.02

−0.09 to 0.04

−0.06

−0.13 to 0.01

Health factor 1: sanitation-related illness

0.07

−0.01 to 0.15

−0.02

−0.20 to 0.16

Health factor 3: fear of injury

0.07

−0.04 to 0.18

0.20

−0.01 to 0.42

Health factor 4: sanitation-related anxiety, embarrassment and shame

−0.15

−0.28 to −0.02

−0.12

−0.33 to 0.09

Health factor 5: sanitation-related stress and fear

0.01

−0.06 to 0.08

0.04

−0.08 to 0.15

  1. Models adjusted for all 18 covariates are listed in Table 2.