Finding · as stated by the study, recorded by Coridum · status verified-machine
Finding F-0514
“Houses that used solid fuel had much higher median levels of PM2.5 (905.10μg/m3, IQR: 336.50) and PM10(1999.0 μg/m3, IQR: 1827.30) which is significantly higher as compared to houses that used clean fuel, for PM2.5 ,99.00 μg/m3 (IQR: 75.80) and for PM10, (119.70 μg/m3, IQR: 73.10) (p < 0.001).”
Structure
- Factor
- Particulate matter (PM₂.₅ and PM₁₀)
- Intervention
- Clean fuels
- Population
- households cooking at home
- Setting
- kitchen, ET
- Study design
- cross-sectional household survey of 280 randomly selected households in Jimma town, Ethiopia (140 solid fuel, 140 clean fuel/electricity): real-time PM2.5, PM10, CO, CO2 and VOC measured in the kitchen during cooking for 30 minutes to one hour with portable monitors, compared by fuel, kitchen configuration, ventilation and stove type with Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests (class 4)
- Effect
- median 119.70
- Averaging time
- real-time measurement during cooking, 30 minutes to one hour
- Sample
- 280 households
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