A Study on Water Sanitation Hygiene &amp; Hand Washing Practices among Mothers Of Under 5 Children Attending Tertiary Care Hospital In Kolkata, India

De, Maumita `; Taraphdar, Pranita

doi:10.9790/0853-150715459

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“…Another study conducted in Karnataka by Aithal et al found that 96.7% of respondents had knowledge regarding prevention of diseases with hand washing was. 21 All the mothers (100%) were practicing hand washing after defecation which was encouraging and similar to findings in the studies conducted by Pandve et al, Rafath et al, De et al and Ray et al [22][23][24][25] Most of the mothers i.e., 97.57% in this study were practicing hand washing before eating. These findings were comparable to the finding by De et al in which 95% of mothers were practicing hand washing before eating.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…These findings were comparable to the finding by De et al in which 95% of mothers were practicing hand washing before eating. 24 Present study showed that 71.57% of mothers were practicing hand washing before cooking, 39.22% before serving and 36.27% after handling raw vegetables fruits and meat. These findings were contrast with the findings in a study in two communities of eastern India by Ray where none of the mother was practicing hand washing before preparing food and handling raw vegetables.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Pandve et al and De et al observed that 80% and 74.67% of participants were using water with soap as medium of hand washing respectively which was comparable with the present study findings. 22,24 Many studies demonstrated that communities which practice hand washing with soap and water have less incidence of diarrhoea and respiratory disease. 5,13,30 In the present study significant association was found between medium of hand washing and episodes of diarrhoea and ARI in last 6 months amongst mothers under five children or other family members.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Hand washing practices amongst mothers of under-fives in an urban slum

Quazi¹,

Wadde²,

Nagaonkar³

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Hand washing with soap is a cost-effective tool of disease prevention, but most of the time it is overlooked. Use of contaminated hands enhances transmission of germs into body causing ill-health. Mothers clean, prepare, serve and feed the food. If this is coupled with poor knowledge and practice of hand washing it increases risk to spread of diseases to self, other family members especially to under-fives. Present study was conducted to address this issue being a critical factor in disease prevention. The objective of the present study was to determine the knowledge and practices of hand washing amongst mothers of under-fives.Methods: Present cross sectional study was conducted at UHTC, field practice area of Community Medicine, GMC, Latur amongst mothers of under-fives visiting UHTC to avail health services. The data was collected in a predesigned, pretested questionnaire by interviewing them.Results: Out of 204 mothers, 38.24% were from the age group of 24-26 and majority i.e., 69.61% were housewives. 99.02% mothers were aware that unwashed hands can transmit the diseases. Most of the mothers told that clean hands reduces food and water contamination. Maximum i.e., 97.57% mothers washed hands before eating and 71.57% washed before cooking. All the mothers washed hands after visiting toilet. Most mothers used soap and water (85.3%) for hand washing. Significant numbers of mothers, under-fives and other members suffered from diarrhea in last six months (p<0.05).Conclusions: Hand washing practices need to be followed at all critical moments for prevention of the faeco-oral infections.

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Hand washing practices amongst mothers of under-fives in an urban slum

Quazi¹,

Wadde²,

Nagaonkar³

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…A study conducted by De and Taraphdar showed that only 35.33 percent respondents use water purification method and not using any purification method were about 64.66 percent which was almost similar to our findings. 15 Similar results were shown by studies conducted by A Kuberan et al and Mohd and Malik which showed 45.0 percent and 55.6 percent do not use any type of water purification methods respectively. 12,13 The results of studies done by Joshi et al and Pachori et al found that about 75 percent and 15.3 percent of respondents use nothing for water purification respectively showing some difference with the present study.…”

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confidence: 82%

Drinking water hygiene practices in caregivers of under 6 year children: a cross sectional study in urban Lucknow, India

Manar

Singh

Bajpai

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Safe drinking water is the basic necessity for humans. Due to water borne diseases, most of the children get malnourished. The present study was conducted to know about knowledge and practices on drinking water hygiene and to find the association between knowledge and drinking water hygiene practices among caregivers of under 6 year children.Methods: It is a community-based cross-sectional study conducted in the field practice area of a medical college in urban Lucknow. We included 250 respondents in our study. The data were analyzed using Institutional SPSS-24.0 (IBM Corp., Chicago, USA).Results: The present study showed that about 91.6 percent of study participants showed concern about safe drinking water hygiene. About 90.8 percent of study participants thought that water container needs cleaning and about 95.6 percent thought that water container needs covering. Surprisingly 65.6 percent of the participants did not use any type of water purification method. People thought that they should use drinking water purification methods, but in reality, much less percentage (34.4%) of people in the study uses any type of purification method (p<0.001).Conclusions: Although most of the participants showed their concern about safe drinking water hygiene, purification, etc., most of them still do not use any purification methods putting their children are at risk of many diseases.

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“…Sanitation is seen principally as the removal of human excreta or the availability of appropriate facilities for its disposal. Improved sanitation is used, and it refers to connection of households to a private or sewer septic system, a pour flush latrine or to a ventilated improved pit latrine [3] Poor sanitation, water and hygiene have many other serious consequences; children and particularly girls are denied to their rights to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Poor water quality is deadly and some 5 million deaths a year is caused by polluted drinking water [4].…”

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Level of Knowledge Regarding Water and Sanitation among Women of Biratnagar

Chaulagain¹,

Parajuli²

2018

J Nobel Med Coll

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Background: Clean and safe water is one of the basic needs of human beings. Inaccessibility to this and poor sanitation leads to various water borne diseases, gastro enteropathy and under nutrition. In Nepal, only 39% of total population have access to improved sanitation and 38.4% of people defecate in open airs. So the objective of this study was to assess the level of knowledgeand practices regarding safe drinking water and sanitation among women. Materials and methods: A descript cross-sectional research design was adopted for the study. A convenient sampling technique was used for sample collection. A self-designed structured questionnaire along with face to face interview was to evaluate the knowledge. Data were analysed by using descriptive as well as inferential statistics to find out association betweenlevels of knowledge of safe drinking water. Result: The findings showed that among 75 participants, 44% had adequate knowledge, 45.3% had moderate knowledge and 10.7% had inadequate knowledge regarding safe water and sanitation. In this study most ofthe respondents,ie 45.3% had moderate knowledge. Conclusion: The research findings concluded that most of the participants had moderate knowledge about safe drinkingwater and sanitation. Thus, the author feels community mass health education is required in this community to prevent water borne diseases.

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A Study on Water Sanitation Hygiene & Hand Washing Practices among Mothers Of Under 5 Children Attending Tertiary Care Hospital In Kolkata, India

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Hand washing practices amongst mothers of under-fives in an urban slum

Hand washing practices amongst mothers of under-fives in an urban slum

Drinking water hygiene practices in caregivers of under 6 year children: a cross sectional study in urban Lucknow, India

Level of Knowledge Regarding Water and Sanitation among Women of Biratnagar

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