Table 3.

Proportion of participants that endorsed eating the yams by age group and item.

	Age groups
	6–12-year-olds	13–17-year-olds	Adults	Collapsed
Contaminates
Cough	0.05 (0.22)	0.05 (0.22)	0.09 (0.30)	0.06 (0.24)
Feces	0	0	0	0
Fly	0	0.05 (0.22)	0.05 (0.21)	0.03 (0.17)
Blood	0.05 (0.22)	0.05 (0.22)	0.09 (0.30)	0.06 (0.24)
Controls
Leaf	0.10 (0.31)	0.33 (0.48)	0.36 (0.49)	0.28 (0.45)
Bead	0.15 (0.37)	0.24 (0.44)	0.23 (0.43)	0.20 (0.40)
Ocean	0.10 (0.31)	0.38 (0.50)	0.45 (0.51)	0.31 (0.47)
Stone	0.15 (0.37)	0.10 (0.30)	0.32 (0.48)	0.18 (0.39)

Note. N = 63 (20 6–11-year-olds, 21 13–18-year-olds, and 22 adults). (Standard deviation.)