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Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Although all people have the right to access basic sanitation services, people with disabilities often face additional barriers to accessing the service compared to people without disabilities. Over the last few years, with the focus of the sustainable development goals on universal acce...

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Autores principales: Getahun, Abuneh, Kassie, Genet Gedamu, Bunare, Tsion Samuel
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9231769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35749427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270395
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author Getahun, Abuneh
Kassie, Genet Gedamu
Bunare, Tsion Samuel
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description BACKGROUND: Although all people have the right to access basic sanitation services, people with disabilities often face additional barriers to accessing the service compared to people without disabilities. Over the last few years, with the focus of the sustainable development goals on universal access to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene facilities, awareness of the need for programs to reach and benefit everyone has been growing. But the current level of access to latrines is not known. OBJECTIVE: To determine latrine access and identify factors associated with it among people with physically disability in Kombolcha town, 2020. METHODS: A community-based mixed cross-sectional study was conducted among physically disabled people in Kombolcha town in April 2020. Quantitative data was collected from 374 randomly selected study participants using structured interviewer-administered questioners. The key informant and in-depth interviews were conducted with purposely selected individuals.The bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted. Thematic analysis was used for qualitative data RESULTS: Latrine access among people with a physical disability was found to be (22%), 95% CI (17.7–26.5). membershipto disability association (AOR = 2.162, 95% CI (1.231–3.799)),wealth status of study participants. (AOR = 4.169, 95% CI (1.96–8.864)) stigma and discrimination to get latrine in the last 12 months(AOR = 0.212, 95% CI (0.116–0.388)) and study participant’s knowledge to construct accessible latrine (AOR = 4.389, 95% CI (2.446–7.87)) werepredictor variables of latrine accessibility. Shared/publiclatrine, stigma and discrimination, poor wealth status,lack of own house, and lack of information provided regarding latrine accessibility supplementary barriersfor inaccessible latrinefrom In-depth and key informant interviews. CONCLUSION: Latrine access among people with a physical disability was found to be very low. Poor knowledge of accessible latrine construction, poor wealth status, stigma and discrimination, and not beinga member of a disability association increased the risk of latrine inaccessibility.
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spelling pubmed-92317692022-06-25 Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study Getahun, Abuneh Kassie, Genet Gedamu Bunare, Tsion Samuel PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Although all people have the right to access basic sanitation services, people with disabilities often face additional barriers to accessing the service compared to people without disabilities. Over the last few years, with the focus of the sustainable development goals on universal access to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene facilities, awareness of the need for programs to reach and benefit everyone has been growing. But the current level of access to latrines is not known. OBJECTIVE: To determine latrine access and identify factors associated with it among people with physically disability in Kombolcha town, 2020. METHODS: A community-based mixed cross-sectional study was conducted among physically disabled people in Kombolcha town in April 2020. Quantitative data was collected from 374 randomly selected study participants using structured interviewer-administered questioners. The key informant and in-depth interviews were conducted with purposely selected individuals.The bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted. Thematic analysis was used for qualitative data RESULTS: Latrine access among people with a physical disability was found to be (22%), 95% CI (17.7–26.5). membershipto disability association (AOR = 2.162, 95% CI (1.231–3.799)),wealth status of study participants. (AOR = 4.169, 95% CI (1.96–8.864)) stigma and discrimination to get latrine in the last 12 months(AOR = 0.212, 95% CI (0.116–0.388)) and study participant’s knowledge to construct accessible latrine (AOR = 4.389, 95% CI (2.446–7.87)) werepredictor variables of latrine accessibility. Shared/publiclatrine, stigma and discrimination, poor wealth status,lack of own house, and lack of information provided regarding latrine accessibility supplementary barriersfor inaccessible latrinefrom In-depth and key informant interviews. CONCLUSION: Latrine access among people with a physical disability was found to be very low. Poor knowledge of accessible latrine construction, poor wealth status, stigma and discrimination, and not beinga member of a disability association increased the risk of latrine inaccessibility. Public Library of Science 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9231769/ /pubmed/35749427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270395 Text en © 2022 Getahun et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Getahun, Abuneh
Kassie, Genet Gedamu
Bunare, Tsion Samuel
Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study
title Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study
title_full Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study
title_short Latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in Kombolcha Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A mixed cross-sectional study
title_sort latrine access and factors associated with it among people with physical disability in kombolcha town, northeast ethiopia: a mixed cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9231769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35749427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270395
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