Research Article
Availability of Adequately Iodized Dietary Salt and Associated Factors in a Town of Southeast Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
Table 2
Dietary salt handling practice of householders in Kore Town, Southeast Ethiopia, 2019.
| | Variables | Availability of adequately iodized salt in the household | Cramer’s V | Chi2 | | Adequate, n (%) | Inadequate, n (%) |
| | Type of dietary salt | | | 0.2 | <0.001 | | Unpackeda | 100 (46.7) | 114 (53.3) | | Packed | 123 (68.3) | 57 (31.7) |
| | Type of container | | | 0.2 | 0.003 | | Plastic package | 68 (70.1) | 29 (29.9) | | Closed plastic cup | 110 (55.0) | 90 (45.0) | | Open plastic cup | 45 (46.4) | 52 (53.6) |
| | Storage place | | | 0.2 | 0.01 | | Dry place | 199 (58.4) | 142 (41.6) | | Cold place | 9 (69.2) | 4 (30.8) | | Near cooking fire | 11 (52.4) | 10 (47.6) | | Moist place | 4 (21.1) | 15 (78.9) |
| | Exposing salt to sunlight | | | 0.1 | 0.02 | | Yes | 14 (38.9) | 22 (61.1) | | No | 209 (58.4) | 149 (41.6) |
| | Washing iodized salt | | | 0.1 | 0.1 | | Yes | 16 (45.7) | 19 (54.3) | | No | 207 (57.7) | 152 (42.3) |
| | Types of the market to buy dietary salt | | | 0.2 | <0.001 | | Open market | 131 (50.6) | 128 (49.4) | | Supermarket | 95 (70.4) | 40 (29.6) |
| | Duration of storing dietary salt | | | 0.1 | 0.07 | | <2 months | 214 (56.3) | 166 (43.7) | | ≥2 months | 9 (64.3) | 5 (35.7) |
| | Time to add dietary salt to the cooked food | | | 0.3 | <0.001 | | From the beginning of the cooking process | 82 (47.1) | 92 (52.9) | | In the middle of the cooking process | 67 (51.1) | 64 (48.9) | | At the end of the cooking process | 74 (83.1) | 15 (16.9) |
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Notes. aThe salt is bought from the market without any package.
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