Table 3. Changes in poultry contact in Kampong Cham and Prey Veng provinces, Cambodia from January 2006 to December 2007.
| Reported Practice | All Subjects n (%) | ||
| 2006 n = 450 | 2007 n = 800 | p-value‡ | |
| Contact with domestic poultry | |||
| Touch sick or dead poultry with bare hands | 339 (75.3) | 337 (42.1) | <0.001 |
| Allow children in the household play (touch and catch) with poultry | 92 (20.4) | 205 (25.6) | 0.06 |
| Use dead domestic poultry from yard for household consumption | 203 (45.1) | 108 (13.5) | <0.001 |
| Care or help care for poultry | 319 (70.6) | 588 (73.5) | 0.03 |
| Slaughter poultry | 173 (38.3) | 286 (35.8) | <0.001 |
| Contact with poultry at live bird markets | |||
| Ever bought poultry from the market for food during the study period | 43 (9.4) | 62 (7.8) | 0.48 |
| Contact with wild birds | |||
| Eat wild birds | 149 (33.1) | 277 (34.7) | <0.001 |
| Collect dead wild birds from the field for household consumption | 37 (8.2) | 36 (4.5) | 0.002 |
| Ever prepared wild birds for food | 114 (31.2) | 217 (27.1) | <0.001 |
| Potential environmental contamination | |||
| Prepare poultry near a pond, river, or water well | 84 (23.0) | 220 (27.5) | <0.001 |
| Wash poultry products directly in the water source (pond/river) | 6 (1.6) | 99 (12.7) | <0.001 |
| Use poultry feces for manure | 347 (76.8) | 494 (61.8) | <0.001 |
‡
X 2 or Fishers exact test p-value adjusted for gender.