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RESEARCH ARTICLE Hunting, Food Preparation, and Consumption of Rodents in Lao PDR
2016
A cross-sectional study was conducted in 29 villages of Khamkeuth District in Bolikhamxay Province in the Lao PDR during March to May 2013. The study aimed to determine the char-acteristics associated with rodent consumption and related behaviors among different eth-nic groups, ages, and genders. Five-hundred-eighty-four (584) males and females from 18-50 years of age participated in this study. Half of them were Hmong (292, 50%) while 152 respondents were Lao-Tai (26%) or other ethnic groups (140, 24%). Most of the respondents (79.5%) had farming as their main occupation. Prevalences of the studied outcomes were high: 39.9 for hunting or capturing rodents in the previous year, 77.7 % for preparing rodents as food, and 86.3 % for rodent consumption. Multivariable logistic regres-sion analysis showed that likelihood of these types of rodent contact was more consistently associated with behavioral factors (gathering things from the forest and elsewhere, cultiva-tion-related activities...
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