A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Hand Hygiene Technique among School Children in Maharashtra, India

Abstract

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.

Effective behavior change in hand hygiene practices among boys residing at foster care home in Bengaluru city: An interventional study

“…The considerably higher frequency of handwashing before meals among the children in the present study may be due to the Indian cultural tradition and ceremonial practice of washing hands before meals or the desire for clean, fresh hands before eating. Similar findings were found in studies conducted in Colombia [6] and India [3,[7][8] which reported that 82.5% and 86.4% of the children, respectively, wash their hands after using the toilet.…”

“…The foundations of lifelong responsibility for the maintenance of personal hygiene are laid down in childhood, which is important for a healthy childhood, for a healthy adulthood, and for the development of positive values about health and the use of health services. [3,6,7] The children residing in the sheltered homes showed a positive behavior change after the educational intervention. Table 5 showed that 82.65% of the participants who were using water only for washing their hand started using hand washing solution post intervention.…”

“…Fecal-oral contamination is a major cause of transmissible diseases such as gastrointestinal infections. [6,7] Recurrent infections may have negative impact on children's psychological and psychosocial well-being as well as quality of life. For improvement of health and prevention of diseases (e.g., diarrhea and gastrointestinal infections), handwashing with soap is very important for school-age children.…”

“…[9] However, only 36.2% of children washed their hands using soap in a study by Vivas et al. [1] Studies conducted in the Philippines [7] and Turkey [10] showed that on an average of 37.7% and 42.4% of children, respectively, washed their hands with soap. In the present study, 100% of children washed hands after using toilet and also in line with a study conducted by Sarkar [3] where 98 (94.23%) children washed their hands after visiting toilet and 88 (84.62%) washed their hands before eating.…”

Edukasi Kesehatan Mengenai Praktik Cuci Tangan pada Guru sebagai Upaya Pencegahan Covid-19

“…Menurut beberapa ahli, ada beberapa metode dan media yang dilakukan secara simultan berpengaruh secara efektif dalam penyampaian pesan kesehatan dan mempengaruhi perubahan pengetahuan dan perilaku. Metode tersebut antara lain metode ceramah, metode diskusi, demonstrasi dan simulasi (Tidwell et al, 2020;Kobra et al, 2016;So et al, 2019;Sumitro et al, 2019;Mane & Tata, 2017). Ceramah adalah suatu cara dalam menyampaikan pesan, paparan mengenai kesehatan secara lisan kepada kelompok sasaran (Sumitro et al, 2019;Avissa et al, 2015).…”