Table 1 |
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Percent of caregivers who reported ever practicing acts involving saliva passage to children ≤ 6 years old |
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| Practice |
Mothers |
Fathers |
Grandmothers |
Siblings |
| N = 258 |
N = 198 |
N = 204 |
N = 236 |
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| Shared toothbrush or toothstick |
14% |
9% |
22% |
19% |
| Cleaned eyes or face with tongue |
19% |
2% |
44% |
8% |
| Used mouth/cloth soaked with saliva to soothe insect bite |
18% |
10% |
28% |
8% |
| Premastication of food |
67% |
44% |
81% |
68% |
| Shared sweets or candy |
55% |
67% |
65% |
87% |
| Blown herbs via mouth into nostril |
5% |
4% |
23% |
0.8% |
| Rubbed premasticated herbs on head or face |
64% |
76% |
82% |
39% |
| Pushed substance into rectum from mouth through pipe |
10% |
4% |
25% |
n/a |
| Inserted finger lubricated with saliva into rectum |
15% |
4% |
28% |
n/a |
Butler et al. Infectious Agents and Cancer 2009 4(Suppl 2):O4 doi:10.1186/1750-9378-4-S2-O4 |
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