A cross sectional descriptive study of hand washing knowledge and practices among primary school children in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Gawai, Priyanka; Taware, Sachin; Chatterjee, Ameeta; Thakur, Harshad

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20163391

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“…Our study also noted that 99.7% practiced hand wash after using toilet. This finding was in harmony reported studies which showed 99.2% 1 , 98% 15 and 91.6% 17 respectively. However, one study reports only 18.1%, 18 possibly due to different study design.…”

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Knowledge and practice of personal hygiene among secondary school students of grade nine and ten

Rajbhandari

Dhaubanjar²,

Bahadur

et al. 2018

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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Introductions: Personal hygiene deficiency have been found to be a serious public health problem and people often affected are school children. These have been attributed to inadequate knowledge of personal hygiene and its practices. This study was designed to explore the existing knowledge and practices of personal hygiene among the students studying at secondary level schools in Bhaktapur district, Nepal. Methods: This study was a cross- sectional study to investigate personal hygiene knowledge and practices of secondary level, grades nine and ten school children, Bhaktapur district, Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Pre-tested, self- administered questionnaire were used. Data were collated and analyzed descriptively. Results: The result showed that the secondary school students who participated in the study were evenly distributed by gender (50.4% males and 49.6% females),most of the respondents (78.8%) were in the 15-16 year age bracket. Majority of the respondents (88.5%) had good knowledge level on personal hygiene. Female students were found having more knowledge level than male students. Conversely, majority of them were noted with moderate to poor level of hygiene practices. Conclusions: Secondary school students of Bhaktapur have good knowledge on personal hygiene while lot more improvement is required in terms of practices. Integrated approach by parents, school and social media to enhance hygiene practices could be useful.

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Knowledge and practice of personal hygiene among secondary school students of grade nine and ten

Rajbhandari

Dhaubanjar²,

Bahadur

et al. 2018

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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“…UNICEF assert that hands washing before eating and after toilet use are the two most critical moments of handwashing. 22,23 Most of the children were of the view that it was necessary to wash hands after visiting toilet (43%) and before and after eating (32.33%). Even though, the children identified hand washing after toilet use and before eating as necessary to wash hands, only few of them always washed their hands with soap before and after eating (32%).…”

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“…The current findings partly agree to a study by Gawai PP et al which found that 75.5 % of children considered hand washing before eating food as crucial whiles a very few consider after toilet use 18.1% as important time to wash hands. 22 The transmission of bacteria is more likely to occur from wet skin than from dry skin; therefore, proper drying of hands after washing is very important in the hand washing process. 24 Findings on what the children used in drying their hands after hand washing revealed that most of the children used handkerchief (23.33%) to wipe hands whiles 18.7% used common towel/napkin to wipe their hands, this practice can lead to cross contamination of the hands immediately after hand washing.…”

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“…12 This however disagrees with a study by Gawai PP et al in Mumbai which cited forgetfulness as the main reason for missing hand washing in school. 22 Hand washing with soap is effective in preventing transmission of faecal oral diseases and other infectious diseases in school-age children. 25 Therefore, School children should always wash their hands with soap after visiting toilet, before and after eating, after handling garbage and when hands are visibility dirty.…”

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Hand washing knowledge and practices among public primary schools in the Kintampo Municipality of Ghana

Dajaan

Addo

Ojo

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Hand washing is very effective in preventing communicable diseases. Hand washing is particularly important for children, as they are more vulnerable to infections gained from unwashed hands and also due to their unhealthy behaviour. The study was conducted to determine the availability of hand washing facilities, hand washing knowledge and practices among public primary schools in Kintampo Municipality.Methods: A cross sectional survey was carried out among 300 children and 10 headmasters in 10 selected schools. Data were collected using questionnaires and observation checklist regarding socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge of hand washing, hand washing practices and availability of hand washing facilities in the selected schools.Results: All the children indicated that it was important to wash their hands with water and soap. About (37.67%) washed their hands in order to prevent diseases, 53.33% had never been educated on how to wash their hands. Only 23.33% of the children demonstrated correctly on how to wash hands, a little over 15% washed their hands under clean running water whiles 23.33% wipe their hands using handkerchiefs. Forty-three percent indicated after visiting toilet as necessary to wash hands whiles 42.33% cited lack of water as the barrier to hand washing. About 39.88% always washed their hands with soap after using the toilet; about 60% of the schools had hand washing points. Only 30% of the schools have clean running water.Conclusions: There is the need for effective hand washing education in the schools to help improve hand washing knowledge and practices. Hand washing facilities in the schools were found to be inadequate.

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“…In this way reducing forgetfulness and ultimately delivering this message to parents that will in turn take the hand washing communication to the community level. Accessibility of infrastructure and hand hygiene promotion, like wash basin, water and soap should be improved both at home and school [18].…”

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Effectiveness of Education to Improve Knowledge Regarding Hand Washing Practices of Primary School Children in Rural Community

Habib¹,

Hussain²,

Parveen³

et al. 2019

SJNHC

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Introduction: Hand washing through appropriate and easy methods and educational intervention could be save millions of lives, which are cost effective in many developing world. There are clear changes observed in hand washing behaviors of primary school children after the educational intervention. Hand hygiene is the cornerstone for prevention and control of infection and prevents the children from different diseases. Methods: A quasi-experimental, quantitative, before and after study design was conducted among the students total (n= 76) in the primary school of Ali Raza Abad Raiwind Road Lahore, Pakistan from September 2018 to December 2018. The educational intervention involve four meeting about hand washing in which the researcher educate the students about hand washing practices and give standard knowledge that improve the hand washing practices that lead to prevention of disease which are caused by contaminated hand and appropriate way of hand washing to promote the good quality of health. Results A total 76 children participated in the study, the majority of the participants were boys 53(69.74%). The mean score of knowledge before intervention is 13.3816, standard deviation is 3.54675 and standard error of mean is .40694 on the other hand the total means of knowledge after intervention is 18.6447, standard deviation is 1.52930 and standard error of mean is .17542. The mean difference between the two mean is 5.26316. There is a statistically significant difference before and after the educational intervention. The educational intervention is highly effective because the significant value is 0.00. Conclusions: The result of the study shows the knowledge regarding hand washing practices of children in primary schools was improved after educational implementation and by proper techniques of hand washing.

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A cross sectional descriptive study of hand washing knowledge and practices among primary school children in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

Knowledge and practice of personal hygiene among secondary school students of grade nine and ten

Knowledge and practice of personal hygiene among secondary school students of grade nine and ten

Hand washing knowledge and practices among public primary schools in the Kintampo Municipality of Ghana

Effectiveness of Education to Improve Knowledge Regarding Hand Washing Practices of Primary School Children in Rural Community

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