Table 10 Relationship between daytime defecation practices and diarrhoea prevalence in the study area
Variables | Categories | Diarrhoea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | No | Yes | Total |
Defecation practice during the day | Unsafe | 217 (90.4%) | 23 (9.6%) | 240 (80.3%) |
Safe | 41 (69.5%) | 18 (30.5%) | 59 (19.7%) | |
Total | 258 (86.3%) | 41 (13.7%) | 299 (100.0%) | |
|  | Chi square (χ) = 7.525; degree of freedom (df) = 1, P = 0.0001; OR = 4.142 CI = 2.054–8.352. | |||
Defecation practice during the day | Unsafe | 68 (73.1%) | 25 (26.9%) | 93 (31.0%) |
Safe | 191 (92.3%) | 16 (7.7%) | 207 (69.0%) | |
Total | 259 (86.3%) | 41 (13.7%) | 300 (100.0%) | |
|  | Chi square (χ) = 19.949; df = 1, P = 0.0001; OR = 0. .228; CI = 115–0,452. | |||