Prevalence and Determinants of Soil-Transmitted Helminthic Infections among School Children at Goro Primary School, South West Shewa, Ethiopia

Table 3

Factors associated with STH among school-age children at Gora Elementary School, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019.

Variable	Alternative	Participants (%)	Positive (%)	AOR (95% CI)	value
Family size	>5	275 (71.1)	51 (18.6)	2.1 (0.9-4.6)	0.072
	≤5	112 (28.9)	10 (8.9)
Grade	1-4	215 (55.6)	40 (18.6)	1.0 (0.4-2.0)	0.841
	5-8	172 (44.4)	21 (12.2)
Latrine available	No	39 (10.1)	10 (25.6)	1.4 (0.6-3.6)	0.426
	Yes	348 (89.9)	51 (14.7)
Shoe wearing habit	Sometimes	154 (39.8)	46 (29.9)	4.1 (2.0-8.5)	0.000
	Always	233 (60.2)	15 (6.4)
Hand wash before meal	Sometimes	96 (24.8)	28 (29.2)	2.3 (1.2-4.5)	0.019
	Always	291 (75.2)	33 (11.3)
Hand wash after toilet	Not at all	152 (39.3)	31 (20.4)	1.5 (0.4-5.2)	0.560
	Only with water	143 (36.9)	26 (18.2)	2.7 (0.8-9.0)	0.097
	With water and soap	92 (26.8)	4 (4.4)
Drinking water source	Unprotected	5 (1.3)	4 (80.0)	39.0 (3.9-393)	0.002
	Protected	382 (98.7)	57 (14.9)
Dirt in fingernail	Yes	166 (42.9)	41 (24.7)	3.5 (1.8-6.9)	0.000
	No	221 (57.1)	20 (9.1)
Play with soil	Yes	177 (45.7)	40 (22.6)	1.5 (0.7-3.2)	0.337
	No	210 (54.3)	21 (10.0)

NB: AOR: adjusted odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; significant at .