ArticlePloS one2022
Prevalence and determinants of scabies among school-age children in Central Armachiho district, Northwest, Ethiopia.
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- Prevalence and determinants of scabies: A global systematic review and meta-analysis.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2024Pooled it
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- Determinants of scabies among households in Fagita Lekoma district, Northwest Ethiopia: a mixed-method study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A case report of medical laboratory confirmation of suspected scabies outbreak at Daara Madina Suwaneh, a quranic school located in Brufut Heights, The Gambia, 2025.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
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- Prevalence and Determinants of Scabies Among Schoolchildren in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Detecting spatial clusters of human scabies in Tigray, Ethiopia from 2018 to 2023.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Neglected tropical disease meets neglected community: Street children's susceptibility to scabies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Assessment of scabies and its associated factors in Hawassa Zuria District, Southern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Low prevalence of scabies and impetigo in Dakar/Senegal: A cluster-randomised, cross-sectional survey.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence and determinants of scabies among schoolchildren in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2024Review
- Cloth sharing with a scabies case considerably explains human scabies among children in a low socioeconomic rural community of Ethiopia.Tropical medicine and health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundScabies is a major global public health issue that might affect people from all socioeconomic levels. Globally, scabies affects more than 200 million people at any time. It remains one of the commonest skin diseases seen in developing countries including Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and determinants of scabies among school-age children in Central Armachiho district, Northwest Ethiopia.
methodsA community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from August to September 2020. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 850 study populations. Data was checked for its completeness, coded, and entered by using EPI-INFO version 7 and exported to the SPSS version 20 for analysis. A Binary logistic regression model was fitted to identify the determinants of scabies. Crude odds ratio (COR) and adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with 95% CI were used as measurements for the associations. P-values <0.005 were considered significant.
resultPrevalence of scabies among the 850 participants studied was 10.82% (95% CI: 8.7-12.9). Contact history with confirmed scabies patient (AOR = 5.28,95% CI: 2.96-9.44), child not attending school (AOR = 3.08, 95% CI;1.45-6.54), rarely changing clothes (AOR = 2.43,95% CI: 1.27-4.62), sleeping on the floor (AOR = 4.11, 95% CI:1.95-8.67), bed sharing; (AOR = 3.38, 95% CI:2.86-6.15), rarely washing cloth: (AOR = 5.08,95% CI:2.75-9.36), living with internally displaced people; (AOR,95% CI: 3.47 (1.30-9.24) and using only water to wash hands; (AOR = 3.18,95% CI:1.74-5.80) had a statistically significant association with scabies infestation among school-age children.
conclusionThe current study found nearly one out of ten school-age children had scabies. Not attended school, contact history with confirmed scabies patient, not washing cloth, infrequent changing clothes, bedding sharing, sleeping on the floor, living with internally displaced people, and only using water for handwashing practice were the independent predictors for the occurrence of scabies. Health education better to given to the parents or caregivers about the washing of clothing, changing clothes at least once per week, and avoid physical contact with known scabies cases.
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