Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics and prevalence of S. mansoni among children of two primary schools in Kemisse Town, Northeast Ethiopia, 2019
| Variables | Responses | N (%) | S. mansoni infection status | X2 values |
P values |
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| Positive n (%) | Negative n (%) | |||||
| Sex | Boys | 263 (52.7) | 151 (57.4) | 112 (42.6) | 6.284 | 0.012 |
| Girls | 236 (47.3) | 109 (46.2) | 127 (53.8) | |||
| Age | 5–9 | 109 (21.8) | 49 (45.0) | 60 (55.0) | 2.829 | 0.243 |
| group, | 10–14 | 371 (74.3) | 200 (53.9) | 171 (46.1) | ||
| years | 15–18 | 19 (3.8) | 11 (57.9) | 8 (42.1) | ||
| School | Kachur | 247 (49.5) | 152 (61.5) | 95 (38.5) | 8.097 | <0.005 |
| Haromssa | 252 (50.5) | 108 (42.9) | 144 (57.1) | |||
| Total n (%) | 499 | 260 (52.1) | 239 (47.9) | |||