Table 2. Knowledge on sign and symptoms of STH in Jimma, Oct_2021.

Characteristics	Frequency (n = yes)	Percentage
Abdominal pain or cramp	615	84.0
Nausea and vomiting	331	45.2
Loss of appetite	317	43.3
Diarrhea	296	40.4
Abdominal distension	244	33.3
Presence of parasite in the stool	197	26.9
Fatigue	36	4.9
Irritability	30	4.1
Itching anal area	19	2.6
Others*	85	11.6
I don’t know	8	1.1

*14(increase salivation),9(body swelling), 5(abdominal shouting), 4(dysentery, skin rash), 3(cause hunger, wasting, headache), 2(change color, no symptoms, fever, may expel per mouth, frequent strain to defecate, face swelling),1(make taste of mouth bitter, blindness, can be change to other disease. e.g cancer, cause other disease, change physical appearance, bedridden, damage intestine, depression, economic crisis, ‘garaa ruurressa’, ‘gar-malee luqqisa’, infection around anal area, death, abdominal burn, change face, fainting, cough, constipation, peptic ulcer disease, cools body, shorten people’s life, if severe it causes rash “cittoo”, thirsty, skin itching, reddish of hair, make the body greyish, odour change, cut the body, phobia of sound and sunlight, pain of kidney).