Hygienic practices and diarrheal illness among persons living in at-risk settings in Kabul, Afghanistan: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Associations between hygienic practices and diarrhea, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2012

	OR^a	95 % Confidence Interval
Sex
Male vs female	0.75	0.40	1.39
Age
23–37	1.12	0.43	2.88
38–43	0.84	0.35	2.01
44–51	0.96	0.40	2.31
52 and older	ref
Household size
< 8 vs 8 or more	1.53	0.80	2.90
Children in house
1	0.97	0.42	2.23
2	1.35	0.68	2.71
3 or more	ref
Literacy
Illiterate vs literate	0.70	0.37	1.31
Residency length
1 or more years vs <1 year	0.58	0.29	1.18
Need to wash dirty hands?
No vs yes	0.54	0.26	1.12
Wash hands with soap before eating?
No vs yes	2.13	0.88	5.13
Wash hands with soap after defecating?
No vs yes	0.81	0.31	2.14
Presence of sink
No vs yes	0.73	0.37	1.43
Time to get drinking water
>10 min vs 10 min or less	0.95	0.52	1.77
Drinking water stored in separate container
No vs yes	0.54	0.26	1.14
In uncovered container	0.64	0.22	1.88
In covered container	ref
Duration of time storing drinking water
> 1 day vs 1 day	1.63	0.85	3.13
Treat water?
No vs yes	0.79	0.38	1.63
Need to boil water before drinking?
No vs yes	0.68	0.35	1.33
Is running water safe to drink?
No vs yes	0.78	0.42	1.48
Latrine shared between households
No vs yes	1.61	0.82	3.19
Do you have a latrine?
No vs yes	1.28	0.49	3.36
Setting^b
IDP camp vs slum	4.70	2.51	8.80

Notes
^aModels were adjusted only for two independent variables: the factor of interest (statistics presented) and setting (IDP camp vs slum)
^bThis model only included the one independent variable

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