Water and Sanitation Hygiene Practices for Under-Five Children among Households of Sugali Tribe of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Table 1

Indicators of water, sanitation, and hygiene practices that were used to develop summary WaSH score.

Drinking water score	Sanitation score	Hygiene score	Hand wash score
Water supply	Defecation practice	Child body hygiene	When hands are dirty; After defecation; Before preparing food; Before eating food; After eating food; After cleaning children
Piped water supplied to the house; Distance of water supply less than 100 meters	Use of sanitary latrine in the house by household members; Use of sanitary latrine in the house by children	Daily bathing; Daily changing of clothes; Daily brushing of teeth
Water storage	Waste disposal	Food hygiene
Daily cleaning of vessels; Covering utensils with a lid; Treating water to make it safe	Waste pit away from the house or collected by municipal person	Washing before eating fruits and vegetables; Do not eat raw vegetables
Water retrieval
Tap connected to vessel/tank or drawn by ladle/vessel with a handle
Possible score 0–6	Possible score 0–3	Possible score 0–5	Possible score 0–12

Score of various hand washing methods: wash with water and soap = 2, wash with only water = 1, and do not wash = 0.
WaSH score. It includes 4 broad indices: drinking water score, sanitation score, hygiene score, and hand washing score. A summary WaSH score was generated from the sum of the four specific indices and had a total of 26 points possible.