Table 4.
Practices regarding hantavirus disease(a).
| Curarrehue | % | Corral | % | Total | % | p value(b) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Have you had rodents inside your home this year? (yes) | 100 | 31 | 97 | 31 | 197 | 31 | 0.314 |
| Does your home have holes where mice can enter? (yes) | 138 | 43 | 102 | 32 | 240 | 38 | 0.003 |
| Have you had rodents in your storerooms this year? (yes) | 172 | 54 | 89 | 28 | 261 | 41 | 0.020 |
| Do you ventilate at least 30 minutes before entering a closed dwelling? Always | 275 | 86 | 242 | 77 | 517 | 81 | 0.352 |
| Do you trap rodents? (yes) | 245 | 77 | 235 | 74 | 480 | 75 | 0.268 |
| When you clean closed dwellings, do you avoid raising dust? (yes) | 263 | 86 | 216 | 80 | 479 | 83 | 0.045 |
| Do you clean places with rodent droppings with chlorine/detergent? | 203 | 63 | 202 | 63 | 405 | 63 | 0.524 |
| Do you clean with detergent or bleach areas with signs of rodents? (always) | 256 | 80 | 272 | 85 | 528 | 83 | 0.150 |
| Do you store wood inside or near your home (less than 30m)? (yes) | 131 | 41 | 102 | 32 | 233 | 36 | 0.012 |
| Do you store crops inside your home? (yes) | 62 | 19 | 40 | 13 | 102 | 16 | 0.024 |
| Do you hunt or kill rodent predators (owls, foxes, snakes)? | |||||||
| Never | 294 | 92 | 292 | 92 | 586 | 92 | 0.519 |
| Always | 18 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 4 | 0.010 |
(a)
Answers of participants to a structured KAP questionnaire to assess their exposure to rodents and behaviors that can increase/decrease exposure to rodents or their droppings.
(b)
Differences in proportion of affirmative answers between study sites (Curarrehue and Corral) using chi-square test (χ2)