scholarly journals “Wiraku Suci”: A Children’s App for Learning Hygiene Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Aznoora Osman ◽  
Nurul Husniyah Mohd Azman
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Development Life Cycle ◽  
Evaluation Phase ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Spiral Model

Hygiene care is a basic human need, but very essential practice that must be taught since childhood. Personal hygiene involves making sure body parts are clean to avoid from health issues caused by poor cleanliness. Parents ultimately bear the responsibility to teach their children about cleanliness, and normally this is done by showing and practising hygiene care themselves. Nevertheless, it is not that easy to educate personal hygiene care to them, especially in the ages of four to six years old, because they are actively playing and exploring their environments. To aid parents, mobile learning app could be employed because hygiene habits can be shown via more engaging ways such as through pictures and video clips of personal hygiene care, simple drag and drop games, and pictorial quiz. In this study, a mobile learning app with game-based approach has been developed by following the software development life cycle Spiral model. During evaluation phase, a heuristic evaluation with five Computer Science lecturers was conducted to examine the usability of the app. Results from the evaluation were used as guidance to refine and improvise the app so that they will be usable and enjoyable for children.   

scholarly journals Knowledge attitude and practices of oral and personal hygiene to prevent communicable diseases among students in and around the city of Mangalore. An epidemiological survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 035-039
Author(s):  
Amitha M. Hegde ◽  
Adrija Kar ◽  
Lekshmi R. ◽  
Minu Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Epidemiological Survey ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Regional Language ◽  
Hygiene Measures ◽  
Percentile Scores ◽  
Sanitary Conditions ◽  
The City

Abstract Introduction: India is undergoing an epidemiologic, demo-graphic and health transition. The expectancy of life has increased, with consequent rise in degenerative diseases of aging and lifestyles. Nevertheless, communicable diseases are still dominant and constitute major public health issues. There are several factors associated with the control of communicable diseases, such as hygiene, sanitation and safe drinking water, which are interlinked. Inadequate sanitary conditions and poor hygiene practices play major roles in the increased burden of communicable diseases. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the knowledge about communicable diseases and practices of proper hygiene measures, among school going children in and around Mangalore, Karnataka. Methodology: A survey was conducted among the students of an English and Kannada medium school using a basic questionnaire. Results: An overall lower percentile scores were obtained by children from Kannada medium school. Conclusion: There is a definite need for intense campaigns for the promotion of good oral and personal hygiene practices better aimed at the prevention of communicable diseases in local regional language medium schools in India.

Menstrual Education and Personal Hygiene Supplies to Empower Young Women in Haiti

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Coker-Bolt ◽  
Annika Jansson ◽  
Sherridan Bigg ◽  
Elizabeth Hammond ◽  
Harmony Hudson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Haitian Women ◽  
International Program ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Perceived Benefit

Recent studies report that Haitian women are concerned about unmet women’s health issues. The Days for Girls (DfG) International program features women’s health education and personal hygiene kits to ensure women understand the process of menstruation and sanitary hygiene practices. The aim was to train Haitian seamstresses to produce the DfG kits during an in-country workshop and investigate the perceived benefit of the DfG program in young women who used the DfG kits. Posttest only design was used to measure the effectiveness of DfG workshop and postsurvey to study perception of women using DfG kits. It was found that the workshop participants demonstrated an understanding of the DfG program (90% average). Forty-four young women (89.8%) who used the DfG hygiene kits for 2 months agreed that there is a need for feminine hygiene programs in Haiti and that the kits were easy to use and clean (97.1% and 92.1%, respectively). The DfG program could provide a cost-effective feminine hygiene program for Haiti and decrease waste from traditional hygiene products.

scholarly journals Healthy, safe and responsible: the modern female traveller

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irmgard L. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Potential Harm ◽  
Travel Information ◽  
Travel Health ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Potential Risks

AbstractOne-half of all travellers are women; yet, there is a distinct lack of detailed travel health knowledge on topics of unique relevance to women. While there is medical advice relating to stages in the female lifecycle, it neglects women-specific practical aspects despite their ability to harm travellers’ health and cause inconvenience. This paper discusses comprehensively three major aspects of travel as they relate to women. First, it suggests the management of personal hygiene, bodily functions, menstruation and sexual behaviour, and alerts to the limited knowledge on travel mental health issues.Second, apart from travelling in a female body with its specific demands, being a woman requires special attention to safety and security. Within various travel contexts, women have many opportunities for minimising potential risks.Finally, guided by travel medicine’s acknowledgment of its role in the concept of responsible travel, this article goes beyond the usual general statements and broad advice and offers detailed and practical suggestions on how the female traveller can contribute to the overall goal of minimising any potential harm to fellow humans and the natural environment. Recognising the scarcity of women-specific travel information, pathways to better education, and a range of suggestions for urgent research facilitate the provision of high-quality travel health care tailored specifically to women’s needs.

scholarly journals Do they really wash their hands? Prevalence estimates for personal hygiene behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic based on indirect questions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Mieth ◽  
Maike M. Mayer ◽  
Adrian Hoffmann ◽  
Axel Buchner ◽  
Raoul Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Hygiene Measures ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Crosswise Model

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, billions of people have to change their behaviours to slow down the spreading of the virus. Protective measures include self-isolation, social (physical) distancing and compliance with personal hygiene rules, particularly regular and thorough hand washing. Prevalence estimates for the compliance with the COVID-19 measures are often based on direct self-reports. However, during a health crisis there is strong public pressure to comply with health and safety regulations so that people’s responding in direct self-reports may be seriously compromised by social desirability. Methods In an online survey, an indirect questioning technique was used to test whether the prevalence of hygiene practices may be lower than in conventional surveys when confidentiality of responding is guaranteed. The Extended Crosswise Model is an indirect questioning technique that guarantees the confidentiality of responding. To the degree that direct self-reports are biased by social desirability, prevalence estimates of hygiene practices such as thorough hand washing based on the Extended Crosswise Model should be lower than those based on direct self-reports. Results We analysed data of 1434 participants. In the direct questioning group 94.5% of the participants claimed to practice proper hand hygiene; in the indirect questioning group a significantly lower estimate of only 78.1% was observed. Conclusions These results indicate that estimates of the degree of commitment to measures designed to counter the spread of the disease may be significantly inflated by social desirability in direct self-reports. Indirect questioning techniques with higher levels of confidentiality seem helpful in obtaining more realistic estimates of the degree to which people follow the recommended personal hygiene measures. More realistic estimates of compliance can help to inform and to adjust public information campaigns on COVID-19 hygiene recommendations.

Maximizing Recall of Gruesome Images for Health Effects Advertising: An Experimental Investigation

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brennen W. Mills ◽  
Owen B. J. Carter ◽  
Robert J. Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
Advertising Effectiveness ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Video Images ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this case study was to experimentally manipulate the impact on arousal and recall of two characteristics frequently occurring in gruesome depictions of body parts in smoking cessation advertisements: the presence or absence of an external physical insult to the body part depicted; whether or not the image contains a clear figure/ground demarcation. Three hundred participants (46% male, 54% female; mean age 27.3 years, SD = 11.4) participated in a two-stage online study wherein they viewed and responded to a series of gruesome 4-s video images. Seventy-two video clips were created to provide a sample of images across the two conditions: physical insult versus no insult and clear figure/ground demarcation versus merged or no clear figure/ground demarcation. In stage one, participants viewed a randomly ordered series of 36 video clips and rated how “confronting” they considered each to be. Seven days later (stage two), to test recall of each video image, participants viewed all 72 clips and were asked to identify those they had seen previously. Images containing a physical insult were consistently rated more confronting and were remembered more accurately than images with no physical insult. Images with a clear figure/ground demarcation were rated as no more confronting but were consistently recalled with greater accuracy than those with unclear figure/ground demarcation. Makers of gruesome health warning television advertisements should incorporate some form of physical insult and use a clear figure/ground demarcation to maximize image recall and subsequent potential advertising effectiveness.

Project Implementation Decision Using Software Development Life Cycle Models: A Comparative Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Adeagbo ◽  
J.E.T. Akinsola ◽  
A.A. Awoseyi ◽  
F. Kasali
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Development Life Cycle ◽  
Software Development Life Cycle ◽  
Waterfall Model ◽  
Spiral Model

Selection of a suitable Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model for project implementation is somewhat confusing as there are a lot of SDLC models with similar strengths and weaknesses. Also, the solutions proffered among the researchers so far have been the  qualitative comparative analysis of SDLC models. Hence, this paper proposes a comparative analysis of SDLC models using quantitative approach in relation to strengths and weaknesses of SDLC models. The study adapted comparative analysis and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models features’ classification using ten characteristics such as project complexity, project size, project duration, project with risk, implementation/initial cost, error discovery, associated cost, risk analysis, maintenance and cost estimation. A quantitative measure that employs online survey using experts in software design and engineering, project management and system analysis was carried out for the evaluation of SDLC models. Purposeful Stratified Random Sampling (SRS) technique was used to gather the data for analysis using XLSTAT after pre-processing, taking into consideration both benefit and cost criteria. The overall performance evaluation showed that Spiral-Model is the best followed by V-Model and lastly Waterfall Model with comparative values of 38.63%, 35.76% and 25.61% respectively. As regards cost estimation, Waterfall Model is the most efficient with value of 41%, then V-Model with 31% and lastly Spiral Model with 28%. V-Model has great error recovery capability with value of 45% which is closely followed by Spiral Model with 37% and lastly Waterfall Model with 18%. The study revealed that, a model with efficient risk assurance does not guarantee efficient cost management. In the future work, more characteristics regarding SDLC models shall be considered.

scholarly journals Prevention and Management of Perinatal Major Infectious Diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Che Yon Park ◽  
Hyunjin Cho
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Varicella Zoster ◽  
Abnormal Growth ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Therapeutic Drugs ◽  
Childhood Morbidity ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Seasonal Flu

Perinatal infection is the leading cause of fetal and neonatal mortality and is directly related to childhood morbidity. Perinatal infections cause abnormal growth, delayed development, and many other clinical problems in newborns. In particular, TORCH syndrome can cause serious fetal and neonatal health problems through vertical infection, and timely diagnosis and treatment through regular antenatal examinations are important. There are no therapeutic options or vaccines for parvovirus or cytomegalovirus. Therefore, prevention is the most important method. In the case of toxoplasmosis, prenatal education is important because it can be prevented through hygiene management, although there are therapeutic drugs. Syphilis has a high prevalence, so early diagnosis is important. Rubella and varicella zoster infections can lead to fatal results in vertical transmission to the fetus. Therefore, preconception vaccination should be performed. Women with herpes simplex, which has a high prevalence in the community, need to be mindful when choosing a childbirth method by evaluating the infection through regular prenatal care to prevent vertical infection. Seasonal flu is rarely transmitted vertically to the fetus, but the morbidity and mortality risk to the mother is higher than that of the general population. Thus, prevention through vaccination is important. Lastly, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has yet to be well studied, although the mother's morbidity and mortality are similar to those of the general population and there is no evidence of vertical infection. Since the findings of the effects on the mother and fetus are limited, transmission should be prevented through social distancing and personal hygiene practices.

scholarly journals Hygiene Practices and Microbial Contamination of Street-vended Foods in Kenyatta University’s Environs

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Were ◽  
Gertrude Were ◽  
Kevin Omondi Aduol
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Contamination ◽  
Total Coliform ◽  
Food Samples ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Microbiological Methods ◽  
And Training ◽  
Main Entrance

Street-vended foods are a major threat to public health because of their microbial contamination. This study investigated hygiene practices and microbial contamination of street foods in Kenyatta University’s environs. Both cross-sectional and experimental designs were adopted. Four (4) major vending stalls at the main entrance to Kenyatta University, gate (A) and at the hind gate at KM shopping center were identified for this study. Twelve (12) food samples were collected from these stalls; sausages, samosas and kachumbari. The foods were collected and transported in cooler boxes to the Microbiology Laboratory at Kenyatta University within 3 hours for analyses. Standard microbiological methods were used for enumeration of Salmonella, coliforms and Escherichia coli. No Salmonella was detected per 25g in all food samples tested. Fifty percent (50%) of kachumbari samples tested positive for E.coli whereas samosas and sausages tested negative. Kachumbari, from all vending stalls, had total coliform levels 4.12 log10 cfu/g, 4.26 log10 cfu/g and 4.21 log10 cfu/g, that did not meet the quality standards (4.00 log10 cfu/g) for ready-to-eat foods. Total coliform counts were below detection limits in samosas and sausages. All (100%) the stalls were exposed to potential contaminants: 75% of the vendors did not wear protective clothing, they handled money and sold food simultaneously, and polythene bags exposed to open air, were used for packaging take away rations. All the foods evaluated were safe for human consumption except kachumbari. Policies on safe street food to be enforced and education and training of vendors on environmental and personal hygiene to be strengthened.

scholarly journals ANALISA DAN PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI AKADEMIK BERBASIS WEB PADA MI AL-MURSYIDIYYAH AL-‘ASYIROTUSSYAFI’IYYAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-217
Author(s):  
Khaerul Anam
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Process Model ◽  
System Development ◽  
Report Cards ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Academic Assessment ◽  
Development Life Cycle ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Transfer Of Information

ABSTRAK Perkembangan Teknologi dalam era globalisasi saat ini melaju dengan sangat pesat dan informasi yang beredar semakin banyak dan kompleks sehingga dunia pendidikan harus dapat mengikuti perkembangan teknologi terutama dalam bidang teknologi komputer, Seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi saat ini. Kebutuhan manusia akan informasi pada saat ini menjadi begitu mudah terpenuhi dengan hadirnya internet, yang memungkinkan melakukan transfer informasi hanya dengan hitungan detik.Namun seiring dengan kemajuan teknologi ditambah dengan meningkatnya gaya hidup mobile. Proses pemantauan nilai akademik siswa pada sistem yang sedang berjalan pada MI Al-Mursyidiyyah Al-’Asyirotussyafi’iyyah dilakukan dengan cara yang konvesional, dimana siswa dan wali siswa hanya bisa melihat hasil dari kemampuan siswa tersebut pada akhir masa pembelajaran atau yang kita kenal dengan istilah pembagian raport siswa.Untuk membantu pihak sekolah dan orang tua atau wali siswa dalam memantau nilai akademik siswa MI Al-Mursyidiyyah Al-’Asyirotussyafi’iyyah – Pamulang, melalui sebuah aplikasi berbasis web dan diharapkan aplikasi ini dapat memberikan informasi kepada pihak sekolah dan orang tua secara efektif dan efisien yang berkaitan dengan penilaian akademik siswa.Metode yang di gunakan dalam melakukan pengembangan sistem aplikasi yaitu SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) dengan model proses waterfall, Dengan sistem yang dijalankan diharapkan akan meminimalisir kesalahan yang tidak diperlukan dalam pembuatan dan pelaporan nilai siswa. ABSTRACT Technological developments in the current era of globalization drove very rapidly and information circulating more and more complex and so the world of education must be able to follow the development of technology, especially in the field of computer technology, Along with the development of technology today. The human need for information at this time becomes so easily fulfilled by the presence of the internet, which allows the transfer of information in just a matter of seconds. But along with technological advancements coupled with increasing mobile lifestyle. The process of monitoring the academic value of students on the system that is running on MI Al-Mursyidiyyah Al-'Asyirotussyafi'iyyah done in a conventional way, where students and guardians can only see the results of the student's ability at the end of the learning period or that we are familiar with the term division of student report cards. To assist the school and parents or guardians in monitoring the academic value of MI Al-Mursyidiyyah Al-'Asyirotussyafi'iyyah Pamulang students, through a web-based application and hopefully this application can provide information to the school and parents effectively and efficiently relating to students' academic assessment. The method used in the development of application system is SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) with waterfall process model, With the system executed is expected to minimize errors that are not required in making and reporting student value.  

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