Table 2.
Practice of pregnant women related to personal and environmental hygiene taking ANC at Yifag Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia (N = 277), November 2019 to March 2020.
| Variable | Categories | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waste disposal | Burring or burning | 25 | 9.0 |
| Open field | 252 | 91.0 | |
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| Have toilet | No | 206 | 74.4 |
| Yes | 71 | 25.6 | |
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| Type of toilet | Private | 31 | 11.2 |
| Open field | 209 | 75.5 | |
| Public | 37 | 13.4 | |
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| Source of water | Pipe | 258 | 93.1 |
| Unprotected | 19 | 6.9 | |
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| Handwashing before feeding | No | 1 | 0.4 |
| Yes | 276 | 99.6 | |
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| Handwashing after toilet | No | 163 | 58.8 |
| Yes | 114 | 41.2 | |
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| Fingernail status | Trimmed | 162 | 58.5 |
| Untrimmed | 115 | 41.5 | |
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| Eating raw meat | No | 166 | 59.9 |
| Yes | 111 | 40.1 | |
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| Eating raw vegetables | No | 150 | 54.2 |
| Yes | 127 | 45.8 | |
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| Personal hygiene | Good | 92 | 33.2 |
| Poor | 185 | 66.8 | |
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| Shoe wearing | No | 127 | 45.8 |
| Yes | 150 | 54.2 | |
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| Transmission and prevention knowledge of IPI | No | 223 | 80.5 |
| Yes | 54 | 19.5 | |