Contamination Potentials of Household Water Handling and Storage Practices in Kirundo Subcounty, Kisoro District, Uganda

Table 7

Bivariate robust Poisson regression analysis of Escherichia coli in household water.

Variable	Escherichia coli
	Absent ()	Present ()	cPR	95% CI	value
Age (years)
21–30	51 (91.1)	5 (8.9)	1.0	—	—
31–40	87 (88.8)	11 (11.2)	1.26	0.46–3.44	0.60
41–50	93 (93.9)	6 (6.1)	0.68	0.22–2.13	0.51
51–60	32 (94.1)	2 (5.9)	0.66	0.13–3.22	0.61
≥61	11 (84.6)	2 (15.4)	1.72	0.37–7.94	0.68
Education
Primary	144 (93.5)	10 (6.5)	1.0	—	—
Secondary	97 (88.2)	13 (11.8)	1.82	0.83–4.00	0.14
Tertiary	33 (91.7)	3 (8.3)	1.28	0.37–4.44	0.69
Occupation
Peasant	187 (91.7)	17 (8.3)	1.0	—	—
Trader	60 (90.9)	6 (9.1)	1.09	0.45–2.66	0.85
Civil servant	20 (87.0)	3 (13.0)	1.56	0.49–4.95	0.45
NGO	7 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0.04	0.01–0.09	<0.001
Water storage container
Closed jerrican	53 (98.1)	1 (1.9)	1.0	—	—
Open jerrican	115 (96.6)	4 (3.4)	1.82	0.21–15.92	0.03
Jar	41 (82.0)	12 (15.6)	9.72	1.27–74.25	0.04
Closed bottle	65 (84.4)	12 (15.6)	8.42	1.12–63.03	0.04
Method of water treatment
Boiling	230 (92.7)	18 (7.3)	1.0	—	—
SODIS	14 (87.5)	2 (12.5)	1.72	0.44–6.80	0.44
Water guard	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0.005	0.001–0.02	<0.001
Days of water storage
One day	9 (90.0)	1 (10.0)	1.0	—	—
Two days	143 (95.3)	7 (4.7)	0.47	0.06–3.44	0.46
Three days	115 (87.8)	16 (12.2)	1.22	0.19–8.32	0.84
Four days	7 (77.8)	2 (22.2)	2.22	0.24–20.64	0.48
Washing hands
Yes	93 (96.9)	3 (3.1)	1.0	—	—
No	181 (88.7)	23 (11.3)	0.28	0.09–0.90	0.033