Keeping kids healthy and clean it is important to teach the basic personal hygiene. It is extremely effective and inexpensive way to prevention of diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. The aim was to assess the effectiveness of hand hygiene technique demonstration on hand hygiene practices of primary school going children. Data was collected from the Rotary Shikshan Santha Malkapur Karad, Maharashtra, India. The study design used was one group pre-test, post-test design. 60 primary school going children aged 6 yrs-7 yrs were selected by simple random sampling technique. On the 1 st day, predemonstration test was conducted by using modified observational checklist and demonstration of hand hygiene technique was administered. After 7 days post-demonstration test was conducted. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. The result showed that the mean pre-demonstration value was 5.383 and mean post-demonstration value was 9.033. The paired t' test value was 23.744, (p<0.0001) showing a significant gain in the improvement of hand hygiene practice of primary school going children. Chi-square test shows that there was a significant association of predemonstration practice score of primary school going children with mothers' education (χ 2 =16.436, p<0.05), father's education (χ 2 =23.016, p<0.05). The study was concluded that the demonstration of hand hygiene technique regarding hand hygiene was effective in improving the practices of hand hygiene of primary school going children and thus administration of steps of hand hygiene technique was easy to understand.
Background: Cervical cancer is a major and devastating cause of mortality worldwide with an estimated global incidence of 5 lakhs new cases and 2.7 lakhs deaths annually among women. The objective of this study was to assess the existing level of knowledge and to determine the effectiveness of planned health education among the nurses regarding early detection and prevention of ca cervix.Methods: Evaluative approach with Quasi experimental one group pre-test-post-test design was used.168 sample were selected with simple random sampling technique, who those are working in tertiary care hospital, Karad. A pre-test given related to cervical cancer questionnaires followed by planned health education imparted for the duration of 45 minutes. Post-test using the same questionnaire were conducted after 7 days.Results: The study results showed that, the planned health education was effective in increasing the knowledge at the level of P <0.001.Conclusions: It is seen that training of nurses less than 30 years, even with lesser experience lesser than 5 years and with unmarried status benefited most. In service education training at the time of induction program and also frequently to refresh to sensitize the nurses with updating knowledge is recommended so that they can motivate the symptomatic and asymptomatic women who those are attending hospital as an outdoor patient or coming with the indoor patient as caretakers.
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