Table 1.
Behavioral risk factors associated with intestinal parasitic infections.
Risk factors | Options | Frequency (#) | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Hand washing before meal | Yes | 393 | 99.2 |
No | 3 | 0.8 | |
Washing hands after toilet | Yes | 365 | 92.2 |
No | 31 | 7.8 | |
Do you wash vegetables? | Yes | 309 | 78.0 |
No | 87 | 22.0 | |
Do you eat raw meat? | Yes | 183 | 46.2 |
No | 213 | 53.8 | |
How often you shoe? | No at all | 25 | 6.3 |
Some times | 28 | 7.1 | |
Always | 343 | 86.6 | |
Way of disposing waste | Burry | 326 | 82.3 |
Open space | 70 | 17.7 | |
Latrine type of families | Private | 366 | 92.4 |
Common | 12 | 3.0 | |
Open space | 18 | 4.6 | |
Students' fingernail during interview | Clean | 258 | 65.2 |
Not clean | 138 | 34.8 |