Table 5. Knowledge on preventive methods of STH in Jimma, Oct_2021.

Characteristics	Frequency (n = yes)	Percentage
Keeping hygiene of food	468	63.9
Keeping personal hygiene	371	50.7
Taking medicine	284	38.8
Washing hands before eating food	245	33.5
Washing hands before preparing food	225	30.7
Boiling drinking water	167	22.8
Avoiding unwashed fruits/vegetable eating	95	13.0
Adding aquatab in drinking water	64	8.7
Washing hands after toilet	55	7.5
Proper utilization of toilet	39	5.3
Washing hands after touching soil	26	3.6
Avoiding eating raw meat	25	3.4
Avoiding eating sweet food	24	3.3
Proper disposal of wastes	7	1.0
Wearing shoes	5	0.7
Others*	68	9.3
Don’t know	22	3.0

*16(clean drinking water),10(eating balanced food), 7(keep material clean), 3(traditional medicine), 2(adding lemon to food), 2(adding lemon to water), 2(eating hot foods), 1(boiling milk, adding salt to food in good ways, avoidance of eating cool food, avoiding starvation, covering drinking water adequately, breast feeding(6mos), feeding butter at birth, covering the hole of toilet, destroying stagnant water, toilet hygiene, well cooking food, drinking tella and alcohol, drinking well water, eating cabbage, eating chills, eating food containing salt and chills, eating fresh food, eating spicy food, exclusive breast feeding, isolation, environmental sanitation, not eating too much cabbage, vaccination, wash hand with soap/ash, using clean water for preparing food, taking oncho drug)