Water and sanitation hygiene practices for under-five children among households of Sugali tribe of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Background. Increased mortality is associated with poor household water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) practices. The objective was to study the WaSH practices for under-five children among households of Sugali Tribe, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Methods. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in four mandals in 2012. A total of 500 households with under-five children were identified. Data was collected from mothers/caregivers. A summary WaSH score was generated from four specific indices, water, sanitation, hygiene, and hand washing practices, and determinants were identified. Results. Of the total households, 69% reported doing nothing at home to make the water safe for drinking. Over 90% of the households reported storing water in a utensil covered with a lid and retrieving water by dipping glass in the vessels. Open defecation was a commonly reported practice (84.8%). About three-fifths of the study’s households reported using water and soap for cleaning dirty hands and one-third (37.4%) reported using water and soap after defecation. The median WaSH score was 15. In the hierarchical stepwise multiple linear regression, only socioeconomic variables were significantly associated with WaSH score. Conclusion. WaSH related practices were generally poor in people of the Sugali Tribe in Andhra Pradesh, India.
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In Sugali Tribe of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, parents' higher levels of education were associated with improved WASH practices.
“Similarly, a study conducted among households with children younger than 5 years of the Sugali Tribe of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, stated that parents’ higher levels of education were associated with improved WASH practices [25].”
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- Authors
- Reddy B, V., Kusuma, Y. S., Pandav, C. S., Goswami, A. K., & Krishnan, A.
- Affiliations
- Department of Community Medicine, Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Medical Sciences and Research Institute, Uttarakhand, India
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Krishnan, Anand
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Environmental and Public Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 2017
- Pages
- 1-7
- ISSN
- 1687-9805 (ISSN-L)
- 1687-9813
- PMC
- PMC5470013
- OpenAlex
- W2618814295
- Cited by
- 61
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- FWCI
- 4.56
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Journal of Environmental and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water Resource Management and Quality
- Keywords
- water, sanitation and hygiene, WASH practices, children under five, child mortality, hand washing, open defecation, drinking water safety, water storage, socioeconomic factors, Chittoor district
- MeSH terms
- Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Hand Disinfection, Humans, Hygiene, India, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Sanitation, Water Quality, Drinking Water
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