Table 2.

Personal hygiene of children aged 6–59 months in rural Dembiya, northwest Ethiopia, May 2017

Hygiene variables	Frequency	Percent
General cleanliness of children
Clean	3	1.3
Not clean	222	98.7
Children wash their face with clean water in every morning
Yes	152	67.6
No	73	32.4
Children wash their body with clean water and soap
Once in 3 days	158	70.2
Once a week	67	29.8
Children’s fingernails kept short
Yes	59	26.2
No	166	73.8
Children wear shoes
Yes	65	28.9
No	160	71.1
Children frequently wash their hands after playing, defecation, and before eating
Yes	102	45.3
No	123	54.7
Mothers’ or caregivers’ hand washing habits
Before meal	223	99.1
After latrine use	154	68.4
After handling baby’s diaper/feces	138	61.3
After meal	209	92.9
Before feeding a child	154	68.4
Before food preparation	201	89.3
After handling rubbish/ animals	112	49.8
Mothers’ or caregivers hand washing practice
Good	55	24.4
Not good	170	75.6