Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and associated factors among school-age children in Sebeya primary school, northern Ethiopia, 2017. RESULTS: The prevalence of intestinal parasites in school-age children was (29.9%). A total of six parasites...

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Autores principales: Dessie, Awrajaw, Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher, Kiros, Berihu, Wami, Sintayehu Daba, Chercos, Daniel Haile
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6883565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31779671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4759-1
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author Dessie, Awrajaw
Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher
Kiros, Berihu
Wami, Sintayehu Daba
Chercos, Daniel Haile
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Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher
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Wami, Sintayehu Daba
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description OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and associated factors among school-age children in Sebeya primary school, northern Ethiopia, 2017. RESULTS: The prevalence of intestinal parasites in school-age children was (29.9%). A total of six parasites were detected in this study. E. histolytica/dispar 19.43% (82/422) and G. lamblia 8.29% (35/422) were the predominant ones. Unclean fingernail (AOR = 1.72), defecating in the open field (AOR = 2.82), and being barefooted (AOR = 1.72) were the determinant factors for intestinal parasitic infections. Frequently washing hands reduced the chance of infections by 68%. Furthermore, children in grade 1–4 and 5–6 had higher odds developing the infections than those in grade 7–8 (AOR = 8.21 and AOR = 2.50, respectively).
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spelling pubmed-68835652019-12-03 Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study Dessie, Awrajaw Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher Kiros, Berihu Wami, Sintayehu Daba Chercos, Daniel Haile BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and associated factors among school-age children in Sebeya primary school, northern Ethiopia, 2017. RESULTS: The prevalence of intestinal parasites in school-age children was (29.9%). A total of six parasites were detected in this study. E. histolytica/dispar 19.43% (82/422) and G. lamblia 8.29% (35/422) were the predominant ones. Unclean fingernail (AOR = 1.72), defecating in the open field (AOR = 2.82), and being barefooted (AOR = 1.72) were the determinant factors for intestinal parasitic infections. Frequently washing hands reduced the chance of infections by 68%. Furthermore, children in grade 1–4 and 5–6 had higher odds developing the infections than those in grade 7–8 (AOR = 8.21 and AOR = 2.50, respectively). BioMed Central 2019-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6883565/ /pubmed/31779671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4759-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Dessie, Awrajaw
Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher
Kiros, Berihu
Wami, Sintayehu Daba
Chercos, Daniel Haile
Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_full Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_short Intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_sort intestinal parasitic infections and determinant factors among school-age children in ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6883565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31779671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4759-1
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