Norovirus infections and knowledge, attitudes and practices in food safety among food handlers in an informal urban settlement, Kenya 2017

Table 2 Health status on diarrhea and vomiting among food handlers and their households in an informal urban settlement, Kenya, 2017

Variables	norovirus Positive		norovirus Negative		OR	95%CI
Variables	n	%	n	%	OR	Lower	Upper
Respondents’ knowledge on that local environment can contaminate ready-to-eat food
Yes can contaminate	37	14	23	86	Ref	–	–
No can’t contaminate	2	20	8	80	1.54	0.31	7.54
Don’t know answer	4	50	4	50	6.16	1.48	25.72
Respondents’ knowledge that spitting on drinking water can contaminate ready-to-eat food
Yes can contaminate	36	14.3	216	85.7	Ref	–	–
No can’t contaminate	6	40	9	60	3.97	1.34	11.92
Don’t know answer	1	6.3	15	93.7	0.40	0.05	3.12
Soap and water availability at the point of sale as observed
Yes both available	12	7.5	149	92.5	Ref	–	–
No not available	31	25.4	91	74.6	4.17	2.08	8.33
Household member with diarrhea
Yes	11	34.4	21	65.6	3.57	1.59	8.33
No	32	12.7	219	87.3	Ref	–	–
Household member with vomiting
Yes	12	37.5	20	62.5	5.26	2.13	12.5
No	31	12.4	220	87.6	Ref	–	–
Household member with
Neither Diarrhoea/ Vomit	32	12.9	216	87.1	Ref	–	–
Only Diarrhoea	1	8.3	11	91.7	0.61	0.08	4.91
Only Vomit	0	0	3	100	UD*	UD	UD
Both Diarrhoea and Vomit	10	50	10	50	6.75	2.61	17.49

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