Journal of Parasitology Research

Research Article

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 5

Comparison of incidence of parasites species at 12^th, 24^th, 36^th, and 48^th weeks in Kogi East, Nigeria.


LGAs	Schools	Incidence at 12th week (3^rd month)				Incidence at 24th week (6^th month)				Incidence at 36th week (9^th month)				Incidence at 48th week (12^th month)
LGAs	Schools		A	H	S		A	H	S		A	H	S		A	H	S

Deworming only (DO)
Ankpa	Ikanekpo	42	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	37	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	39	0 (0.00)	2 (0.22)	0 (0.00)	42	0 (0.00)	4 (0.33)	0 (0.00)
Idah	Ukwaja	38	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	34	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	34	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	32	0 (0.00)	1 (0.08)	0 (0.00)
Ofu	Alome-Umomi	34	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	34	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	28	0 (0.00)	1 (0.11)	0 (0.00)	24	0 (0.00)	2 (0.17)	0 (0.00)
Omala	Opada	38	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	36	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	36	0 (0.00)	1 (0.11)	0 (0.00)	24	0 (0.00)	2 (0.17)	0 (0.00)
Omala	Central Abejukolo	40	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	35	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	35	0 (0.00)	1 (0.11)	0 (0.00)	35	0 (0.00)	1 0.08)	0 (0.00)
		192	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	176	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	172	0 (0.00)	5 (0.56)	0 (0.00)	157	0 (0.00)	10 (0.83)	0 (0.00)
Deworming and health education (DHE)
Dekina	Olubojo	38	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	38	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	32	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	26	0 (0.00)	1 (0.08)	0 (0.00)
Igalamela	Ogbogbo 2	38	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	32	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	32	0 (0.00)	2 (0.22)	0 (0.00)	30	0 (0.00)	3 (0.25)	0 (0.00)
Ofu	Ejule 2	40	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	40	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	40	0 (0.00)	1 (0.11)	0 (0.00)	40	0 (0.00)	2 (0.17)	0 (0.00)
Omala	Agbenema-Ife	40	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	37	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	37	1 (0.11)	2 (0.22)	0 (0.00)	36	1 (0.08)	3 (0.25)	0 (0.00)
Omala	Islamiya-Abejukolo	40	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	38	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	36	0 (0.00)	2 (0.22)	0 (0.00)	35	0 (0.00)	2 (0.17)	0 (0.00)
		196	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	185	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	177	1 (0.11)	7 (0.78)	0 (0.00)	167	1 (0.08)	11 (0.92)	0 (0.00)
	-test		NA	NA	NA		NA	NA	NA		-1.000	-0.784	NA		-1.000	-0.324	NA
	df		NA	NA	NA		NA	NA	NA		8	8	NA		8	8	NA
	value		NA	NA	NA		NA	NA	NA		0.347 ns	0.455 ns	NA		0.347 ns	0.754 ns	NA

: number examined; A: Ascaris lumbricoides; H: hookworms; S: Strongyloides stercoralis; ns: not significant at ; NA: not available.