Table 5.
Knowledge and practice for urogenital schistosomiasis transmission among primary school children.
| Question | Options | Response | No. (%) of responses | Schistosomiasis infection |
P - value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | |||||
| Do the following could results to urogenital schistosomiasis transmission? | Walking with bare foot | Yes | 298 (76.6) | 22 (7.4) | 276 | 0.535 |
| No | 91 (23.4) | 5 (5.5) | 86 | |||
| Urinating outdoor | Yes | 298 (76.6) | 21 (7.0) | 277 | 0.555 | |
| No | 91 (23.4) | 6 (6.6) | 85 | |||
| Eating without hand washing | Yes | 299 (76.9) | 22 (7.3) | 277 | 0.535 | |
| No | 90 (23) | 5 (5.6) | 85 | |||
| Not washing hands after toilet | Yes | 298 (76.6) | 22 (7.4) | 276 | 0.555 | |
| No | 91 (23.4) | 5 (5.5) | 86 | |||
| Urinating in water | Yes | 324 (83.3) | 22 (6.8) | 302 | 0.790 | |
| No | 65 (16.7) | 5 (7.7) | 60 | |||
| Contact with river and pond water (swimming, bathing and washing clothes) | Yes | 308 (79.2) | 21 (6.8) | 287 | 0.853 | |
| No | 83 (21.3) | 8 (1) | 75 | |||
| Do you practice the following? | Urinate in toilet when at school | Yes | 386 (99.2) | 27 (6.9) | 359 | 1.000* |
| No | 3(0.8) | 0 (0.0) | 3 | |||
| Wash hands after toilet | Yes | 315(80.9) | 22 (6.9) | 293 | 0.945 | |
| No | 74 (19.1) | 5 (6.8) | 69 | |||
| Wash hands before eating | Yes | 374(96.1) | 27 (7.2) | 347 | 0.612* | |
| No | 15(3.9) | 0 (0.0) | 15 | |||
| Swimming | Yes | 182(46.8) | 20 (10.9) | 162 | 0.003 | |
| No | 207(53.2) | 7 (3.4) | 200 | |||
| Bath/wash clothes in river/pond | Yes | 201(51.7) | 18 (8.9) | 183 | 0.105 | |
| No | 188(48.3) | 9 (4.8) | 179 | |||
| Urinate in water | Yes | 60(15.4) | 3 (5) | 57 | 0.782* | |
| No | 329(84.6) | 24 (7.3) | 305 | |||
| How often do you wear shoes | All the time | 253(65) | 19 (7.5) | 234 | 0.547 | |
| At school | 136 (34.9) | 8 (5.9) | 128 | |||