Table 1 Knowledge of common symptoms of urogenital schistosomiasis by demographic characteristics
Percentage of subjects with knowledge of urogenital schistosomiasis symptoms | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender* | Educational level attained | Occupation* | Age group | |||||||||||
(N = 2, 553) | (N = 1, 901) | (N = 2, 554) | (N = 2, 549) | |||||||||||
Reported knowledge of urinary schistosomiasis | Male | Female | Basic | JHS | SHS | Tertiary | Unemployed | Students | Fisher | Farmer | Trader | Others | 15–24 years | >24 years |
Know schistosomiasis as a disease | 99.4 | 88.7 | 91.8 | 89.0 | 91.9 | 97.1 | 93.2 | 87.3 | 94.8 | 91.7 | 87.7 | 87.4 | 86.9 | 91.9 |
Symptoms | ||||||||||||||
Blood in urine Frequent urination Painful urination Fever Skin itch Don’t know | 54.4 0.9 52.0 0.3 1.6 37.5 | 64.6 0.5 48.0 0.2 0.3 62.5 | 61.3 0.8 3.4 0.1 1.2 8.1 | 59. 2 0.6 2.9 0.2 8.3 | 46.8 2.7 2.7 0 0 5.4 | 54.3 0.0 2.9 0 0 0.0 | 70.5 0.0 8.0 0 0 7.5 | 51.9 0.5 13.3 0.5 2.3 7.9 | 57.2 1.1 30.7 0.0 4.2 6.1 | 61.6 0.9 22.7 0.5 4 9.7 | 63.4 0.7 24.0 0.4 2.2 11.0 | 70.5 0 1.3 0.0 1.3 7.7 | 55.5 0.6 41.3 0.4 0.3 9.8 | 62.0 0.8 58.7 0.2 0.7 8.1 |