Evaluation of School-Based Health Education Intervention on the Incidence of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Pupils of Rural Communities of Eastern Kogi State, North Central Nigeria

Table 4

Incidence of STHs during follow-up at 12^th, 24^th, 36^th, and 48^th weeks for both interventions.

LGAs/intervention	Schools		New cases (point prevalence in %) (incidence of STHs per month during follow-up)
			12^th week (3 months)	24^th week (6 months)	36^th week (9 months)	48^th week (12 months)
Deworming only
Ankpa	Ikanekpo	42	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	2 (4.8)(0.22)	4 (9.5)(0.33)
Idah	Ukwaja	32	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	1 (3.1)(0.08)
Ofu	Alome-Umomi	24	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	1 (4.2)(0.11)	2 (8.3)(0.17)
Omala	Opada	24	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	1 (4.2)(0.11)	2 (8.3)(0.17)
Omala	Central Abejukolo	35	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	1 (2.9)(0.11)	1 (2.9)(0.08)
	Total	157	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	5 (3.2)(0.56)	10 (6.4)(0.83)
Deworming and health education
Dekina	Olubojo	26	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	1 (3.9)(0.08)
Igalamela	Ogbogbo 2	30	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	2 (6.7)(0.22)	3 (10.0)(0.25)
Ofu	Ejule 2	40	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	1 (2.5)(0.11)	2 (5.0)(0.17)
Omala	Agbenema-Ife	36	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	3 (8.3)(0.33)	4 (11.1)(0.33)
Omala	Islamiya Abejukolo	35	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	2 (5.7)(0.22)	2 (5.7)(0.17)
	Total	167	0 (0.0)(0.00)	0 (0.0)(0.00)	8 (4.8)(0.89)	12 (7.2)(1.00)
	-test was calculated between the two interventions		NA	NA	-1.000	-0.547
		df	NA	NA	8	8
		value	NA	NA	0.347 ns	0.599 ns

: number examined; STHs: soil-transmitted helminths; ns: not significant at ; NA: not available.