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. 2015 Jun 20;128(12):1567–1573. doi: 10.4103/0366-6999.158289

Table 2.

Multiple risk behaviors and their clustering by district

Items Urban n (%) Inner suburb n (%) Outer suburb n (%) χ2 P
RBID
 WHBE 31 (12.7) 53 (12.6) 63 (20.8) 10.70 0.005
 WHAD 34 (13.9) 58 (13.8) 81 (26.7) 23.49 0.000
 WFBE 14 (5.7) 36 (8.6) 42 (13.9) 11.18 0.004
 SIP 5 (2.0) 15 (3.6) 16 (5.3) 4.01 0.135
 Drinking tap water that is not boiled 8 (3.3) 25 (6.0) 44 (14.5) 27.44 0.000
 Sharing towels with others 20 (8.2) 59 (14.1) 66 (21.8) 20.20 0.000
Number of risk behaviors
 0 176 (71.8) 280 (66.8) 136 (44.9) 54.39 0.000
 1 41 (16.7) 68 (16.2) 84 (27.7)
 2 16 (6.5) 44 (10.5) 44 (14.5)
 ≥3 12 (4.9) 27 (6.4) 39 (12.9)
RBCD
 Ever smoking 10 (4.1) 29 (6.9) 37 (12.2) 13.26 0.001
 Passive smoking: ≥4 days/weeks 43 (17.6) 101 (24.1) 70 (23.1) 4.10 0.129
 Breakfast: ≤3 days/weeks 11 (4.5) 49 (11.7) 41 (13.5) 13.07 0.001
 Vegetable consumption: ≤3 days/weeks 7 (2.9) 21 (5.0) 11 (3.6) 2.04 0.361
 Fruit consumption: ≤3 days/weeks 18 (7.3) 78 (18.6) 48 (15.8) 15.81 0.000
 Milk consumption: ≤3 days/weeks 41 (16.7) 140 (33.4) 102 (33.7) 24.90 0.000
Number of risk behaviors
 0 151 (61.6) 186 (44.4) 108 (35.6) 49.22 0.000
 1 63 (25.7) 118 (28.2) 115 (38.0)
 2 26 (10.6) 69 (16.5) 54 (17.8)
 ≥3 5 (2.0) 46 (11.0) 26 (8.6)

RBID: Risk behaviors for infectious diseases; RBCD: Risk behaviors for chronic diseases; WHBE: Not washing hands before eating; WHAD: Not washing hands after defecation; WFBE: Not washing fruit before eating; SIP: Spitting in public.