Dhaka Rohit, Verma Ramesh, Parmar Aparna, Chayal Vinod, Kalhan Meenakshi, Bhalla Kapil, Chawla Suraj, Agrawal Ginni, Kumar Gopal, Sachdeva Aman
Department of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College and Hospital Faridabad, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Jul 30;9(7):3712-3715. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_383_20. eCollection 2020 Jul.
WHO indicates that India has the highest burden of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) in the world, contributing to 25% of the total global cases, with 220 million children aged 1-14 estimated to be at risk.
To study the association between the socioeconomic factors and STHs among primary school children in a rural area of Haryana.
The study was conducted among children aged 6-10 years studying in the rural government primary schools in the rural areas of Haryana. A total of 300 children were enrolled from government school.
The study found that the prevalence of helminthiasis was 28.7% (86/300) and of these 14.0% children were infected with and sex wise association with Helminthic infection was observed as statistically nonsignificant. One third of the (31.39%; 27/86) children were pallor and 5.81% subjects were having Bitot's spot while 13.95% children were having constitutional symptoms such as weakness, 6.97% subjects have fatigue, and 5.81% children have body ache.
The morbidity can be reduced with appropriate inputs to improve the environmental factors. This may need investment for sanitary latrines, food hygiene, and safe drinking water, anti-helminthic drugs, and health education.
The results of the study concluded and recommended that proper implementation of national deworming day and other long-term strategies like sanitation, clean drinking water, adequate sanitation, and also improvement in nutritional status through various nutritional health programmes.
世界卫生组织指出，印度是全球土壤传播蠕虫病负担最重的国家，占全球病例总数的25%，估计有2.2亿1至14岁儿童面临感染风险。
研究哈里亚纳邦农村地区小学生社会经济因素与土壤传播蠕虫病之间的关联。
该研究在哈里亚纳邦农村地区的农村政府小学中6至10岁的儿童中进行。共从政府学校招募了300名儿童。
研究发现，蠕虫病患病率为28.7%（86/300），其中14.0%的儿童感染了[此处原文缺失具体感染类型]，且观察到蠕虫感染与性别之间的关联在统计学上无显著意义。三分之一（31.39%；27/86）的儿童面色苍白，5.81%的受试者有毕脱斑，13.95%的儿童有诸如虚弱等全身症状，6.97%的受试者有疲劳症状，5.81%的儿童有身体疼痛症状。
通过适当投入改善环境因素可降低发病率。这可能需要投资建设卫生厕所、食品卫生、安全饮用水、抗蠕虫药物及健康教育。
研究结果得出结论并建议，妥善实施全国驱虫日及其他长期战略，如环境卫生、清洁饮用水、适当的卫生设施，以及通过各种营养健康计划改善营养状况。
