Assessment of Demographic Caracteractists and Related Factor on Head Lice in Mashhad, a population based study

Pediculosis has been reported as neglected and re-emerged infestation that caused in addition to direct problems in people, social problems, academic failure and depression. This study aimed to determine the demographic and environmental factors associated with patients with head licein Mashhad.
In this cross-sectional study, data of 3767 persons with Pediculosis who refered to health centers of Mashhad in the fall of 2017 collected and were analyzed with the SPSS20 software. data was described by frequency tables, measures of central tendency and dispersion and data analysis was done with Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis and chi-square test.
Of 3767 patients, 3362 (2/89%) were women, 1810 (48.7%) in the age group was 12.7 years. Middle age of patients at three years less for women than men (10 vs. 13 years, Pv People in ages 7-12 years and girls are more vulnerable to Lice infection. schools were the most probable places of contamination, and contact with infected person were the most common way of contamination was obtained. lower Family education was assosiated to risk of more infected people in the family.