Table 3a.
Prevalence of Schistosomiasis by history, NVD, and urine dipstick in Sentinel communities in Ndokwa East LGA at baseline (2003) and follow-up (2005).
| Baseline data | Follow-up data | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community | N | History +ve | NVD +ve | Dipstick +ve | N | History +ve | NVD +ve | Dipstick +ve | % Reduction* | p-value |
| Abuator | 30 | 17 (56.7%) | 23 (76.7%) | 28 (93.3%) | 60 | 7 (11.7%) | 7 (11.7%) | 12 (20%) | 78.6 | <0.0001 |
| Obodo-Oyibo | 30 | 4 (13.3%) | 19 (63.3%) | 28 (93.3%) | 35 | 2 (5.7%) | 2 (5.7%) | 5 (14.3%) | 84.7 | <0.0001 |
| Lagos- Iyede | 30 | 5 (16.7%) | 6 (20%) | 20 (66.7%) | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | <0.0001 |
| Asafor Ase | 30 | 1 (3.3%) | 1 (3.3%) | 13 (43.3%) | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | <0.0001 |
| Umu Onyia | 30 | 2 (6.7%) | 0 | 9 (30%) | 52 | 4 (7.7%) | 1 (1.9%) | 4 (7.7%) | 74.3 | 0.0118 |
| Okpai-Oluchi | 30 | 0 | 2 (6.7%) | 8 (26.7%) | 60 | 1 (1.7%) | 1 (1.7%) | 2 (3.3%) | 87.6 | 0.002 |
| Beneku | 30 | 0 | 1 (3.3%) | 7 (23.3%) | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | <0.0001 |
| Okolori-Afor | 30 | 2 (6.7%) | 1 (3.3%) | 6 (20%) | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0.0079 |
| Total | 240 | 31 | 53 | 119 (49.6%) | 403 | 14 | 11 | 23 (5.7%) | 88.5 | <0.0001 |
*
Percent prevalence reduction based on dipstick testing
NVD-Nurse Visual Diagnosis of Hematuria