Table 8.

Relation of parasitic infections with hygiene practices of the study participants from Bule Hora Town, Ethiopia.

Variable	Unit	Number (N)	Frequency of parasite infections	% of parasite infections	χ 2	P value
Practice of hand washing	Always	117	49	41.8	22.756	0.001
	Sometimes	11	9	81.8
	Rarely	8	5	62.1
Hand washing purpose	Eating	61	32	52.5	17.783	0.032
	After toilet	19	11	57.9
	Cooking	18	7	38.8
	Eating and cooking	31	11	35.5
	All of these	7	2	28.5
Facility of washing toilet	Yes	66	21	31.8	4.042	0.050
	No	70	42	60.0
Nail trimming practice	Yes	113	54	43.9	22.003	0.040
	No	23	9	69.2
Wearing of protective clothes	Yes	87	48	55.2	29.468	0.034
	No	49	15	30.6

^∗χ² = chi-square; P = level of significance; P ≤ 0.05 indicates that the relationship is significant.