scholarly journals Impact of hand washing intervention program on knowledge, attitude and practices about hand hygiene among school children in urban area of Kolhapur city

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 2955
Author(s):  
Pallavi A. Potdar ◽  
T. A. More ◽  
Anjali Wagh ◽  
Manjiri M. Desai ◽  
Raja .
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Control Measure ◽  
Infection Control Measure ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Primary School Children

Background: Good hand hygiene is an important infection control measure as person-to-person contact via hands is a common mode of transmission for gastrointestinal and respiratory infections. There are promising results of proper hand washing for reducing many kinds of diseases. For improvement of knowledge and practice of hand washing, health education intervention is very much fruitful. The objectives of the study were to study knowledge, attitude and practice regarding hand washing among primary school children; to study impact of hand washing intervention program on knowledge, attitude and practices about hand hygiene.Methods: The study was conducted from 1st March 2018 to 30th December 2018 in the government aided primary schools of urban area in Kolhapur. Initially baseline school health check-up was done to study knowledge, attitude and the actual hand washing practices both in school as well as at home among children. Extensive health education programs were conducted to demonstrate correct hand washing technique and importance of hand washing was taught; with involvement of teachers from schools. Data was collected using interview questionnaires. Hand washing facility and availability of water and soap in school was also noted. Teachers were actively involved to motivate students for hand washing with soap before eating and after visiting toilet facility. Follow up visits were done to study parameters like improvement in knowledge, attitude and practices about hand hygiene.Results: After our health education sessions there was significant improvement in knowledge, attitude and practices regarding hand washing among the school children.Conclusions: From our study findings it can be stated that after our health education sessions there was significant improvement in hand washing behaviour among the participants. We tried to sensitize teachers also so that they will motivate children in future.

scholarly journals Hand hygiene practices among school children of a periurban area Firozabad district

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 3544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv Srivastava ◽  
Amarveer Singh Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
School Children ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primordial Prevention ◽  
Hygiene Practices

Background: Hand hygiene is a milestone of infectious disease control, and promotion of improved hand hygiene has been recognized as an important public health measure. The present study was undertaken to assess the hand hygiene practices among the school students of a peri urban area in district Firozabad.Methods: This six months cross sectional study was carried out among the students of an Intermediate college situated in a peri urban area of Firozabad district, U. P. All the students who were present in the respective classes (Vth–VIIth standard) were surveyed. A structured, self-administered pretested questionnaire was used to collect detailed information about the subjects‟ self-reported hand washing practices. Data entry and statistical analysis were performed using the Microsoft Excel and SPSS windows version 14.0 software.Results: Out of total 76 students, 97.4% practiced hand washing after defecation with Soap and water, while 63.2% did hand washing after cleaning with soap and water and 31.6% washed hands before eating food with Soap and water. A higher proportion of males showed proper hand hygiene practices than females. Proper Hand hygiene practices increased with the increase in education.Conclusions: Teaching the correct hand hygiene practice at an early age with help students to be healthy in later life. Thus primordial prevention is the key to reduce infection in school children. 

scholarly journals Personal hygiene practices and related skin diseases among primary school children of urban poor locality

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 2526
Author(s):  
Ravish S. Haradanhalli ◽  
Ramya Mandya Prashanth ◽  
Nitu Kumari ◽  
Iswarya Siddhareddy ◽  
Pradeepkumar D. P. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Hygiene Practices

Background: Government of India has launched ‘Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya’ initiative in 2014, with emphasis on promoting safe and hygiene practices among school children. Providing easy access to hygiene and health education regarding personal hygiene is a simple and cost effective tool for prevention and control of hygiene related health problems including skin diseases. Objectives of the study were to assess the personal hygiene practices of primary school children and to find out the skin diseases related to personal hygiene practices.Methods: The study was conducted among 12 primary schools in an urban poor locality. The availability of hygiene facilities in all the schools was noted. The hygiene practices among the children were collected using pre-designed, semi-structured proforma and clinical examination was done to find out skin diseases among them. Subsequently, all school children were given health education regarding correct hygiene practices. The data was analysed using mean, percentages and Chi-square test.Results: The study included 1404 students. Among them 40.7% took bath daily, 53.7% wore washed undergarments, uniform and socks daily, 56.5% had trimmed nails and 76.7% washed hands with soap and water before eating and after using toilet. On examination, 475 (33.8%) had skin diseases like pityriasis alba (13.2%), pediculosis capitis (12.3%), pyoderma (4.6%) and others. There was significant association between skin diseases and hygiene practices (p<0.001).Conclusions: Improper hygiene practices were associated with skin diseases. Therefore, regular social and behavioural change communication activities on hygiene practices has to be imparted for school children to prevent related skin diseases.

scholarly journals Hand Washing Practice Before Covid-19 Pandemic and Associated Factors Among Primary School Children at Hawassa City Sidama Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisay Tesfaye ◽  
Getamesay Mulatu ◽  
Siraj Hussen
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Multistage Sampling

Abstract Objectivesthe aim of this study was to assess hand washing practice before covid-19 pandemic and associated factors among primary school children, Hawassa City, Sidama, Ethiopia MethodAn institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted at primary schools children in Hawassa city, Sidama Ethiopia from February to October 2019. A total of 739 students were selected using multistage sampling techniques. Information about socio demography and associated factors was collected by structured questionnaire.ResultIn this study, about 399 (54%) of the students wash their hands at critical times. Availability of hand washing material, availability soap/ash, availability water and pear influence (AOR =1.75, 95% CI=1.22, 2.23), (AOR = 3.23, 95% CI =2.02, 5.15), (AOR = 1.76, 95% CI=1.07, 2.89),(AOR=0.32 95% CI=0.101,0.98) had higher odds of washing practice respectively.ConclusionThe magnitude of hand washing practice was low in this study before covid -19 pandemic. In this regard, Poor access to hand washing facilities need to strengthen as intervention efforts. Further, health education promotion for hand washing practice could be done in school by Hawassa city administration Education office and better facilities need to avail by the stakeholders.

scholarly journals Health Education Intervention on Hand Washing in a selected Primary School Children

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
MSA Farzan ◽  
I Zerin ◽  
MA Kabir ◽  
MSR Pavel ◽  
MS Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
Dental Research ◽  
Health Education Intervention

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjdre.v2i1.15571 Bangladesh Journal of Dental Research & Education Vol.2(1) 2012: 7-11

Ophthalmic Screening of School Children in Ankara

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.E. Turaçli ◽  
S.G. Aktan ◽  
K. Dürük
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Screening Program ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Refractive Errors ◽  
Normal Visual Acuity ◽  
Good State ◽  
State Schools ◽  
Average State

Ophthalmic screening was done on 23,810 children visited at schools in different regions of Ankara. Children with below normal visual acuity were invited to the outpatient department and had a full routine ocular examination. Thirty-nine nursery and primary schools were selected, ten of them private, eleven average state schools, seven good state schools and eleven village schools. Among the 23,810 children, 3095 (13%) had various pathology; 1516 were girls, 1579 boys. Refractive errors were found in 85% of the children (2630). This equals 11% of the total screened population. Refractive errors were myopia 32%, hypermetropia 21%, astigmatism 47%. Strabismic children were 2.5%, and amblyopia was found in 1.1%. The purpose of the study was to assess the place of an ocular screening program in primary school children and to discuss the differences encountered in different urban areas.

scholarly journals Oral health in relation to nutritional status among 10 years old primary school children in Al-Hillah city/ Iraq

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Y. AL Khafaji ◽  
Nadia A Al Rawi
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Gingival Index ◽  
Gingival Health

Background: Oral health and nutrition are in interdependent relationship that good nutritional health enhancing good oral health. Nutrition can affect the development and integrity of oral cavity and the progression of oral disease. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of the gingival health condition in relation to the nutritional status, among 10 years old primary school children in urban and rural area in Al-Hillah city. Material and method: Eight hundred ninety one (891) students, aged10 years old, selected randomly from different primary schools, in urban and rural area in Al-Hillah city, were included in this study. Oral examination including of plaque index assessment, which was done according to the criteria by Silness and Loe, in 1964, gingival health conditions was determined according to Loe and Silness, 1963. Nutritional status was assessed using body mass index (BMI), following the criteria of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth chart (CDC). Statistical analysis was done using Kruskal Wallis test, Mann-Whitney U test and ANOVA, p-value of < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: This study showed that the majority of the sample was found to be with normal gingival health condition. No significant difference was observed between the gingival index in relation to gender, or residence also, no significant result was found, between plaque and gingival index in relation to the nutritional status. Conclusion: The majority of the sample with normal gingiva however the nutritional status had no significant effect on gingival health condition while the urbanization had an effect on oral hygiene

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