Total No. of children N=920
Activity
No. of Males who undertake activity (%)
No. of females who undertake activity (%)
Total No. of children who undertake activity (%)
Total No. infected (%)
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2
Yates corrected
P-value
Bathing in the canals
442 (67.3)
215 (32.7)
657 (71.4)
333 (50.7)
24.48 <0.0001
Washing clothesÂ
335 (60.4)
220 (39.6)
555 (60.3)
302 (54.4)
24.73 <0.0001
Washing cooking utensils
9 (7.9)
109 (92.1)
118 (20.4)
90 (47.9)
0.00 0.98
Working on rice farm
407 (67.0)
200 (33)
607 (66.0)
302 (49.8)
2.73 0.09
Working on tomato farm
236 (50.8)
228 (49.2)
464 (55.4)
238 (51.3)
4.51 0.03
Undertake at least one of the above activities
442 (59.8)
297 (40.2)
808 (87.8)
405 (50.1)
14.62 0.0001
Table 2:
Various Water contact Activity and the Associated Risks of Schistosomiasis infection.
