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Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the parasitic infections affecting people living in prison. Helminths and intestinal protozoan infections are the most common parasitic infection that may cause serious life-threatening diseases in inmates living in developing countries. This stud...

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Autores principales: Ameya, Gemechu, Zerdo, Zerihun, Tesfaye, Mihret, Jabesa, Chimdo, Awaje, Abayneh, Dejene, Kaleb, Shika, Petros, Eshetu, Mohammed
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4703-y
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author Ameya, Gemechu
Zerdo, Zerihun
Tesfaye, Mihret
Jabesa, Chimdo
Awaje, Abayneh
Dejene, Kaleb
Shika, Petros
Eshetu, Mohammed
author_facet Ameya, Gemechu
Zerdo, Zerihun
Tesfaye, Mihret
Jabesa, Chimdo
Awaje, Abayneh
Dejene, Kaleb
Shika, Petros
Eshetu, Mohammed
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description BACKGROUND: Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the parasitic infections affecting people living in prison. Helminths and intestinal protozoan infections are the most common parasitic infection that may cause serious life-threatening diseases in inmates living in developing countries. This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) among inmates living in Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia. METHODS: Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted on Arba Minch inmates, southern Ethiopian. Pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used to gather the data of socio-demographic characteristics, hygiene status of the prisoners, sanitation condition of the prison, and associated factors for IPIs by face to face interview. Direct wet-mount examination and formol-ether sedimentation techniques were used to examine intestinal parasitic infection from stool specimens. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to see the association between different variables and the IPI. Odds ratio with 95% CI was computed to determine the presence association and strength of the associated factors. RESULT: A total of 320 prisoners were participated in this study. Of these, 154(48.1%) of them were infected with one or more intestinal parasites. Eight different intestinal parasites species were identified and Giardia lamblia was the predominant parasite. Among infected inmates, nearly one out of four of them had multiple parasitic infections dominated by Giardia lamblia and E. histolytica/dispar co-infection. Sleeping in group [AOR = 1.9; 95% CI: (1.0–3.8)], married prisoners [AOR = 1.8; 95% CI: (1.1–2.9)], and hand washing habits after handling soil [AOR = 2.4; 95% CI: (1.0–5.6)] were independently associated with IPI. CONCLUSION: High prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection was detected in Arba Minch inmates, southern Ethiopian. Absence of hand washing, marital status, and way of sleeping were the factors associated with the IPI. Implementation of mass drug administration, education on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and periodic screening of intestinal parasitic infection is very important to reduce the high prevalence IPIs in prison.
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spelling pubmed-69379672019-12-31 Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study Ameya, Gemechu Zerdo, Zerihun Tesfaye, Mihret Jabesa, Chimdo Awaje, Abayneh Dejene, Kaleb Shika, Petros Eshetu, Mohammed BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the parasitic infections affecting people living in prison. Helminths and intestinal protozoan infections are the most common parasitic infection that may cause serious life-threatening diseases in inmates living in developing countries. This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) among inmates living in Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia. METHODS: Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted on Arba Minch inmates, southern Ethiopian. Pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used to gather the data of socio-demographic characteristics, hygiene status of the prisoners, sanitation condition of the prison, and associated factors for IPIs by face to face interview. Direct wet-mount examination and formol-ether sedimentation techniques were used to examine intestinal parasitic infection from stool specimens. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to see the association between different variables and the IPI. Odds ratio with 95% CI was computed to determine the presence association and strength of the associated factors. RESULT: A total of 320 prisoners were participated in this study. Of these, 154(48.1%) of them were infected with one or more intestinal parasites. Eight different intestinal parasites species were identified and Giardia lamblia was the predominant parasite. Among infected inmates, nearly one out of four of them had multiple parasitic infections dominated by Giardia lamblia and E. histolytica/dispar co-infection. Sleeping in group [AOR = 1.9; 95% CI: (1.0–3.8)], married prisoners [AOR = 1.8; 95% CI: (1.1–2.9)], and hand washing habits after handling soil [AOR = 2.4; 95% CI: (1.0–5.6)] were independently associated with IPI. CONCLUSION: High prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection was detected in Arba Minch inmates, southern Ethiopian. Absence of hand washing, marital status, and way of sleeping were the factors associated with the IPI. Implementation of mass drug administration, education on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and periodic screening of intestinal parasitic infection is very important to reduce the high prevalence IPIs in prison. BioMed Central 2019-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6937967/ /pubmed/31888496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4703-y 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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Ameya, Gemechu
Zerdo, Zerihun
Tesfaye, Mihret
Jabesa, Chimdo
Awaje, Abayneh
Dejene, Kaleb
Shika, Petros
Eshetu, Mohammed
Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_full Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_fullStr Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_short Intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of Arba Minch prison, southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_sort intestinal parasite infections and associated factors among inmates of arba minch prison, southern ethiopia: cross sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4703-y
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