| dc.description.abstract | Background: Waterborne diseases are caused by drinking contaminated or dirty water.
Contaminated water can cause many types of diarrheal diseases, including Cholera, and other
serious illnesses such as Guinea worm disease, Typhoid, and Dysentery. Water related
diseases cause 3.4 million deaths each year. Waterborne diarrheal diseases, for example, are
responsible for 2 million deaths each year, with the majority occurring in children under 5.
Objective: The purpose of study was to determine the factors associated with the prevalence
of water borne diseases amongst community members in Masajja B Village, Makindye
Division, Kampala District in May 2018
Methods: This was a cross-sectional and descriptive in nature among 384 among the
community members who selected using convenience sampling, data was analyzed using
SPSS version 20.
Results: From the data analyzed, the prevalence of water borne diseases was 57.8%.
Socio-demographic factors that were associated with water borne diseases were marital status
(χ 2 =11.212, P-value=0.011), education level (χ 2 =16.057, P-value=0.001), employment status
(χ 2 =22.951, P value=0.000).
The individual factors that were associated with water borne diseases were if they have ever
heard of the term water borne disease (χ 2 =14.527, P-value=0.000), knowledge on the type of
water that causes water borne disease (χ 2 =43.348, P-value=0.000).
The environmental factors that were significantly associated with water borne diseases were
hand washing (χ 2 =56.119, P value=0.000),Water purification methods (χ 2 =9.111, P-
value=0.028), type of toilet (χ 2 =64.040, P value=0.000), distance of toilet from the household
(χ 2 =4.368, P-value=0.024), distance of toilet from the water source (χ 2 =10227, P-
value=0.001).
Conclusions: In conclusion, this study revealed that the prevalence of water borne disease
was moderate and factors such as marital status, education level, employment status,
knowledge on water borne disease and safe drinking water, water purification methods, type
of toilet and distance to the toilet were associated with water borne disease.
Recommendations: Therefore the study recommends that long term measures that the
government should consider include promotion of fully functional families, improvement in
socioeconomic status as well improving knowledge on water borne and safe water plus
sanitation with appropriate environmental designs. | en_US |
