Health improvement for disadvantaged people in Nepal – an evaluation

Table 3 Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for knowledge of diarrhoea prevention amongst all 628 participants

	N (%) yes / no	Unadjusted	Multiply adjusted¹
Wash hands before eating
Non-RBA	98 (31.5) / 213	1.00	1.00
RBA	171 (53.9) / 146	2.55 (1.84, 3.53)	2.51 (1.79, 3.53)
P value		<0.001	<0.001
Wash hands with soap after toilet
Non-RBA	67 (21.5) / 244	1.00	1.00
RBA	158 (49.8) / 159	3.62 (2.55, 5.13)	3.76 (2.60, 5.42)
P value		<0.001	<0.001
Drink clean water
Non-RBA	152 (48.9) / 159	1.00	1.00
RBA	217 (68.5) / 100	2.27 (1.64, 3.14)	2.23 (1.59, 3.14)
P value		<0.001	<0.001
Don’t eat stale food
Non-RBA	190 (61.1) / 121	1.00	1.00
RBA	204 (64.4) / 113	1.15 (0.83, 1.59)	1.25 (0.89, 1.76)
P value		0.40	0.19
Cover food
Non-RBA	63 (20.3) / 248	1.00	1.00
RBA	113 (35.7) / 204	2.18 (1.52, 3.12)	2.11 (1.44, 3.09)
P value		<0.001	<0.001
Don’t overeat
Non-RBA	55 (17.7) / 256	1.00	1.00
RBA	64 (20.2) / 253	1.18 (0.79, 1.76)	1.03 (0.68, 1.56)
P value		0.42	0.90
	N (%) no / yes²	Unadjusted	Multiply adjusted¹
Don’t know how to prevent
Non-RBA	285 (91.6) / 26	1.00	1.00
RBA	303 (95.6) / 14	1.97 (1.01, 3.86)	2.13 (1.03, 4.41)
P value		0.05	0.04

¹ For caste, gender, education, food sufficiency, marital status, birth in last 3 years, number of children in household; ² Outcome is “positive” i.e. negative response to “Don’t know how to prevent”.

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