Table 4.
Potential Risk Factors | Category | Frequency (n = 421) |
Proportion (%) | 95% CI |
---|---|---|---|---|
Swimming | Yes | 250 | 59.4 | 54.51–64.08 |
No | 171 | 40.6 | 35.92–45.49 | |
Bathing | Yes | 217 | 51.5 | 46.66–56.40 |
No | 204 | 48.5 | 43.60–53.34 | |
Fishing | Yes | 261 | 62.0 | 57.15–66.62 |
No | 160 | 38.0 | 33.38–42.85 | |
Washing/water fetching | Yes | 279 | 66.3 | 61.50–70.74 |
No | 142 | 33.7 | 29.26–38.50 | |
Macroscopic results | Clear/Amber | 327 | 77.7 | 73.33–81.50 |
Cloudy/Bloody | 94 | 23.3 | 18.50–26.67 | |
Prior treatment | No | 155 | 36.8 | 32.23–41.64 |
Yes | 226 | 53.7 | 48.79–58.51 | |
Distance to water | Far (>5 km) | 365 | 86.7 | 82.99–89.72 |
Near (<5 km) | 56 | 13.3 | 10.28–17.01 | |
Knowledge about disease | Yes | 375 | 89.1 | 85.60–91.81 |
No | 46 | 10.9 | 8.19–14.40 | |
Herding livestock | Yes | 230 | 54.6 | 49.74–59.44 |
No | 191 | 45.4 | 40.56–50.26 | |
Sanitation | Good | 360 | 85.5 | 81.70–88.66 |
Poor | 61 | 14.5 | 11.34–18.30 | |
Prior infection | Yes | 173 | 41.1 | 36.38–45.97 |
No | 248 | 58.9 | 54.03–53.62 |
n = number of respondents; % = Percentage; CI = Confidence interval.