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Table 4 Home-environmental characteristics of the study participants, N = 280

From: Foot care practice and associated factors among patients with lymphoedema in Boreda district, Gamo zone, southern Ethiopia, 2020. Implications for elimination of podoconiosis and lymphatic filariasis

Variables

Category

Frequency

Percentage (%)

Distance from home to safe drinking water (one round walking distance in minute)

30 min and below

191

68.2

Above 30 min

89

31.8

Number of litres of drinking water fetched per day

50 or below

212

75.7

Above 50

68

24.3

Latrine conditions

No latrine

3

1.1

Functional pit latrine

264

94.3

Non-functional latrine

13

4.6

Weather conditions

Mid-land

44

15.7

lowland

236

84.3

Type of soil

Red clay soil

228

81.4

Sandy soil

13

4.6

Black soil

39

14