Table 3 Distribution of risk factors collected from parents of participant children of the region of Cananea in northwest Mexico
Characteristic | Number of interviews | Categories | Percentage (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
Civil status | |||
Mother | 173 | Married | 32 (56) |
Unmarried (free union, widow, single) | 68 (117) | ||
Father | 45a | Married | 30 (14) |
Unmarried (free union) | 70 (31) | ||
Economic activity | |||
Mother | 173 | Yes (sales, teacher, babysitter, adult patient care, cleaning of homes, maid, laundry, merchant, employee, retired) | 43 (74) |
No (housewife, student) | 57 | ||
Father | 45 | Yes (sowing, mechanic, laborer, sales, miner, merchant, painter, teacher, blacksmith, carpenter, welder) | 88 (40) |
No (student) | 12 | ||
Education | |||
Mother | 173 | Completed secondary | 25 (40) |
Uncompleted secondary | 75 | ||
Father | 45 | Completed secondary | 25 (11) |
Uncompleted secondary | 75 | ||
Family Income | 173 | ||
˃ 4.86 USD | 21 (36) | ||
≤4.86 USD (≤1 minimum wage/day) | 79 | ||
Crowding | 173 | ||
<3 persons per room | 76 (131) | ||
>3 persons per room | 24 | ||
Household characteristics | 173 | ||
Walls material | Cement, brick, block, adobe | 90 (156) | |
Other material (cardboard) | 10 | ||
Floor material | Laminate, mosaic, cement | 90 (156) | |
Ground | 10 | ||
Roof material | Cement, wood and metal laminate | 90 (156) | |
Only metal laminate | 10 | ||
Drinking Water | 173 | ||
Treated water (boiled or with iodine and/or chlorine solution or commercial purified water) | 41 (71) | ||
Direct tap water (only with chlorine 5 ppm). | 59 | ||
Symptomatology | 173 | ||
Abdominal pain | |||
Yes | 64 (111) | ||
No | 36 | ||
Headache | |||
Yes | 46 (80) | ||
No | 54 | ||
Domestic animals | 173 | ||
No | 57 (99) | ||
Yes (chickens, dogs, cats) | 43 |