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Table 1 Socio-demographic data of vaginal douching practice

From: Vaginal douching by women with vulvovaginitis and relation to reproductive health hazards

 

Douching (n=469)

Non-douching (n=151)

p- value

Age (mean±S.D)

29.41±9.372

29.68±8.740

0.754

N .of living children (mean± S.D)

2.15±1.98

2.32±1.68

0.328

N .of males (mean± S.D)

1.06±1.23

1.09±1.02

0.766

N of females (mean± S.D)

1.14±1.18

1.25±1.07

0.297

Occupation

   

- house wife n(%)

140 (29.9)

51 (33.8)

0.364

- Working n(%)

329 (70.1)

100 (66.2)

 

Residence

   

- Urban n(%)

52 (11.1)

20 (13.2)

0.017

- Semi-urban n(%)

253 (53.9)

97 (64.2)

 

- Rural n(%)

164 (35.0)

34 (22.5)

 
  1. Douching: mean women who are performing internal vaginal douching by fingers or pumps.
  2. Non-douching: women who were not performing any internal vaginal douching.
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