Table 3.

Child exposures observed over 6 h of household observation with 18 households with young children

	% of households in which behavior was observed	Average # of times per hour
Harmful behaviors	100.0	7.0
Children’s fingers in mouth	100.0	3.0
Dirt in mouth	83.3	0.9
Dirty object in mouth	94.4	2.5
Touched animal	66.7	0.5
Ate leftover uncovered food	38.9	0.1
Protective behaviors	77.8	0.5
Child’s hands were washed with soap	16.7	0.0
Child’s hands were washed without soap	66.7	0.3
Woman caregiver washed hands with soap	22.2	0.1
Woman caregiver washed hands without soap	61.1	2.3