Research Article
Prevalence of Intestinal Parasitic Infections and Associated Risk Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Prenatal Care in the Northwestern Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics of pregnant women in Shahura Primary Hospital, 2019 (
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| Sociodemographic characteristics | Frequency | Percent |
| Age category (year) | | | 15-19 | 20 | 5.2 | 20-24 | 159 | 41.4 | 25-29 | 133 | 34.6 | 30-34 | 33 | 8.6 | 35-39 | 33 | 8.6 | 40 and above | 6 | 1.6 | Marital status | | | Single | 58 | 15.1 | Divorced | 41 | 10.7 | Married | 285 | 74.2 | Education level | | | Illiterate | 69 | 17.9 | Writing and reading | 174 | 45.3 | High school | 93 | 24.2 | College and university | 48 | 12.5 | Residence | | | Rural | 188 | 48.9 | Urban | 196 | 51.0 | Monthly income (ETB) | | | Less than 500 | 80 | 20.8 | 500-1000 | 186 | 48.4 | Above 1000 | 118 | 30.7 | Occupation | | | Daily laborer | 57 | 14.8 | Student | 15 | 3.9 | House wife | 268 | 69.8 | Civil servant | 44 | 11.5 | Gravidity | | | Primigravida | 214 | 55.7 | Bigravidae | 119 | 31.0 | Multigravidae | 51 | 13.3 | Gestation period | | | 1st trimester | 108 | 28.1 | 2nd trimester | 174 | 45.3 | 3rd trimester | 102 | 26.6 |
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