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. 2014 Dec;14(4):1001–1011. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v14i4.32

Table 3.

Relationship between level of hygiene practice of caregivers/ mothers and diarrhoeal incidence

Level of hygiene
practice on
childhood
diarrhoea.
Cases
(n = 220)
Controls
(n = 220)
OR (95%
CI)
T P-value
Healthy (≥26) 100 (45.5%) 147 (66.8%)
Unhealthy (<26) 120 (54.5%) 73 (33.2%)
Mean 24.57±4.03 26.70±3.26 0.414 −6.088 0.000*
Min 12 15 (0.281–0.609)
Max 32 33
*

=p<0.05