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Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study
BACKGROUND: Household water treatment practice or managing water at the point-of-use provides a means of improving drinking water quality and preventing diarrheal diseases. However, evidence regarding household water treatment practice and associated factors in Ethiopia, particularly in Southern Eth...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8637709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34866908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302211060150 |
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author | Tafesse, Bereket Gobena, Tesfaye Baraki, Negga Alemeshet Asefa, Yohanis Adare Mengistu, Dechasa |
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description | BACKGROUND: Household water treatment practice or managing water at the point-of-use provides a means of improving drinking water quality and preventing diarrheal diseases. However, evidence regarding household water treatment practice and associated factors in Ethiopia, particularly in Southern Ethiopia are limited. This study was, therefore, designed to assess household water treatment practice and associated factors among households in Southern Ethiopia. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted among 627 households in Southern Ethiopia. A stratified random sampling technique was used in this study and a pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect data about household water treatment practice and associated factors among selected households through face-to-face interviews. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tests and binary logistic regression was performed to assess the association between independent and dependent variables. Odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals were used to determine the level of association. RESULTS: This study revealed that the level of household water treatment practice was 34.3% with 95% CI (30.7-38.1) and boiling was the most common method of household water treatment in the study area. Educational status of having formal education (AOR = 2.01, 95% CI = 1.34-3), withdrawing water from storage vessel by dipping (AOR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.2-2.87) and frequency of fetching water 3 or more times and above a day (AOR = 2.65, 95% CI = 1.45-4.88) were significantly associated with household water treatment practice. CONCLUSION: Household water treatment practice is low in the study area. Educational status of having a formal education, drawing water by dipping, and those who collect their drinking water 3 or more times a day were predictors of household water treatment practice. Thus, efforts should be made to increase the level of household water treatment practice especially among those with no formal education and further studies should be conducted to understand the behavioral factors associated with household water treatment practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-86377092021-12-03 Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study Tafesse, Bereket Gobena, Tesfaye Baraki, Negga Alemeshet Asefa, Yohanis Adare Mengistu, Dechasa Environ Health Insights Original Research BACKGROUND: Household water treatment practice or managing water at the point-of-use provides a means of improving drinking water quality and preventing diarrheal diseases. However, evidence regarding household water treatment practice and associated factors in Ethiopia, particularly in Southern Ethiopia are limited. This study was, therefore, designed to assess household water treatment practice and associated factors among households in Southern Ethiopia. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted among 627 households in Southern Ethiopia. A stratified random sampling technique was used in this study and a pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect data about household water treatment practice and associated factors among selected households through face-to-face interviews. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tests and binary logistic regression was performed to assess the association between independent and dependent variables. Odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals were used to determine the level of association. RESULTS: This study revealed that the level of household water treatment practice was 34.3% with 95% CI (30.7-38.1) and boiling was the most common method of household water treatment in the study area. Educational status of having formal education (AOR = 2.01, 95% CI = 1.34-3), withdrawing water from storage vessel by dipping (AOR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.2-2.87) and frequency of fetching water 3 or more times and above a day (AOR = 2.65, 95% CI = 1.45-4.88) were significantly associated with household water treatment practice. CONCLUSION: Household water treatment practice is low in the study area. Educational status of having a formal education, drawing water by dipping, and those who collect their drinking water 3 or more times a day were predictors of household water treatment practice. Thus, efforts should be made to increase the level of household water treatment practice especially among those with no formal education and further studies should be conducted to understand the behavioral factors associated with household water treatment practice. SAGE Publications 2021-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8637709/ /pubmed/34866908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302211060150 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Tafesse, Bereket Gobena, Tesfaye Baraki, Negga Alemeshet Asefa, Yohanis Adare Mengistu, Dechasa Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe
District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional
Study |
title_full | Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe
District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional
Study |
title_fullStr | Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe
District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional
Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe
District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional
Study |
title_short | Household Water Treatment Practice and Associated Factors in Gibe
District Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional
Study |
title_sort | household water treatment practice and associated factors in gibe
district southern ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional
study |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8637709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34866908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302211060150 |
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