Table 3 Distribution of risk factors for hepatitis B and C among the high risk groups
| Â | High risk groups | Â | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics | Health care workers | Prisoners | Security personnel | IV drug users | ||||
| Â | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) |
Total participants | 1051 | Â | 2287 | Â | 457 | Â | 407 | Â |
Age, mean (s.d.) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Marital status | 38.6 | (6.8) | 42.5 | (5.1) | 38.3 | (6.8) | 42.5 | (4.9) |
Umarried | 210 | (20) | 1464 | (64) | 247 | (54) | 195 | (48) |
Married | 841 | (80) | 823 | (36) | 210 | (46) | 212 | (52) |
Literacy level | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Iliterate | 74 | (07) | 1418 | (62) | 434 | (95) | 175 | (43) |
Literate | 977 | (93) | 869 | (38) | 23 | (05) | 232 | (57) |
Current living arrangement | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  Home | 1009 | (96) | 0 | (0.0) | 9 | (02) | 236 | (58) |
  Streets | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 106 | (26) |
  Shrine | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 20 | (05) |
  Away from home | 42 | (04) | 2287 | (100) | 448 | (98) |  |  |
Illicit sexual relation | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
No | 1009 | (96) | 1578 | (69) | 292 | (64) | 330 | (81) |
Yes | 42 | (04) | 709 | (31) | 165 | (36) | 77 | (19) |
Injection practices | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Blood transfusion | 21 | (02) | 91 | (04) | 9 | (02) | 33 | (08) |
Body piercing | 74 | (07) | 480 | (21) | 55 | (12) | 12 | (03) |
Needle stick injury | 231 | (22) | Â | __ | Â | __ | 102 | (25) |
Injection practices | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  heroin injections | 0 | (0.0) | 892 | (39) | 9 | (02) | 269 | (66) |
  injection more than 3 times/day | 0 | (0.0) | 46 | (02) | 0 | (0.0) | 65 | (16) |
  injection with used syringe | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 90 | (22) |
  shared syringe/needle on last time | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 118 | (29) |