Table 1.
Contingency tables and Chi-square test results for cross-tabulations of demographic and brucellosis risk factors with occupation in a study of veterinary personnel in India (n = 296).
| Parameters | Categories | Total N (%) | Occupation n (%) |
χ2p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veterinarians | Para-veterinarians | Handlers | ||||
| Total participants | 296 (100.0) | 67 (22.6) | 134 (45.3) | 95 (32.1) | – | |
| Demographic factors | ||||||
| Tehsil (region) | A(Jagraon) | 55 (18.6) | 9 (13.4) | 24 (17.9) | 22 (23.2) | 0.50 |
| B(Khanna) | 30 (10.1) | 7 (10.5) | 13 (9.7) | 10 (10.5) | ||
| C(Ludhiana) | 83 (28.0) | 21 (31.3) | 36 (26.9) | 26 (27.4) | ||
| D(Payal) | 35 (11.8) | 12 (17.9) | 16 (11.9) | 7 (7.4) | ||
| E(Raikot) | 47 (15.9) | 10 (14.9) | 19 (14.2) | 18 (19.0) | ||
| F(Samrala) | 46 (15.6) | 8 (12.0) | 26 (19.4) | 12 (12.6) | ||
| Age (years) | 20–30 | 38 (12.8) | 7 (10.5) | 19 (14.2) | 12 (12.6) | <0.001 |
| 31–40 | 103 (34.8) | 22 (32.8) | 45 (33.6) | 36 (37.9) | ||
| 41–50 | 59 (19.9) | 25 (37.3) | 11 (8.2) | 23 (24.2) | ||
| 50+ | 96 (32.4) | 13 (19.4) | 59 (44.0) | 24 (25.3) | ||
| Experience (years) | 0–9 | 87 (29.4) | 21(31.4) | 32 (23.9) | 34 (35.8) | <0.001 |
| 10–18 | 87 (29.4) | 23(34.3) | 34 (25.4) | 30 (31.6) | ||
| 19–27 | 43(14.6) | 14 (20.9) | 17 (12.6) | 12 (12.6) | ||
| 28–36 | 71(23.9) | 9 (13.4) | 49 (36.6) | 13 (13.7) | ||
| 37–45 | 8 (2.7) | 0 | 2 (1.5) | 6 (6.3) | ||
| Location of work | Urban | 67 (22.6) | 7 (10.5) | 31 (23.1) | 29 (30.5) | 0.053 |
| Rural | 197 (66.6) | 51 (76.1) | 88 (65.7) | 58 (61.1) | ||
| Urban + rural | 32(10.8) | 9 (13.4) | 15 (11.2) | 8 (8.4) | ||
| Practice type | Large animals | 37 (12.8) | 7 (10.9) | 21 (15.8) | 9 (9.7) | 0.35 |
| Mixed practice | 253 (87.2) | 57 (89.1) | 112 (84.2) | 84 (90.3) | ||
| Gender | Male | 276 (93.6) | 53 (79.1) | 133 (100.0) | 90 (94.7) | <0.001* |
| Female | 19 (6.4) | 14 (20.9) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (5.3) | ||
| Brucellosis risk factors | ||||||
| Brucella needle stick injury | No | 280 (95.9) | 64 (95.5) | 127 (96.9) | 89 (94.7) | 0.048* |
| Yes | 12 (4.1) | 3 (4.5) | 4 (3.1) | 5 (5.3) | ||
| Animals at home | No | 168 (56.8) | 50 (74.6) | 70 (52.2) | 48 (50.5) | 0.004 |
| Yes | 128 (43.2) | 17 (25.4) | 64 (47.8) | 47 (49.5) | ||
| Consumes raw milk | No | 260 (88.1) | 64 (97.0) | 121 (90.3) | 75 (78.9) | 0.001 |
| Yes | 35 (11.9) | 2 (3.0) | 13 (9.7) | 20 (21.1) | ||
| Source of information about brucellosis | ||||||
| Mainbrucellosis information source | People | 104 (35.1) | 7 (10.5) | 31 (23.1) | 66 (69.5) | <0.001 |
| Government | 41 (13.9) | 8 (11.9) | 18 (13.4) | 15 (15.8) | ||
| Journals/books | 151 (51.0) | 52 (77.6) | 85 (63.4) | 14 (14.7) | ||