Family factors associated with children's handwashing hygiene behavior

Song, In Han; Kim, Sang-A; Park, Woong Sub

doi:10.1177/1367493512456106

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“…The pursuit of healthy living has been associated with the ''logic of choice'' (Mol 2008), which refers to a mode of organizing perspectives and actions and of understanding the relationship between individuals, environments, and daily lives, as well as dealing with knowledge and practices of being healthy. Empirical studies have shown that healthrelated habits and perceptions attained through healthy living in a family enable children to develop everyday healthy practices that significantly affect their health outcomes (Song et al 2013;Turney et al 2013;van Grieken et al 2014) and quality of life (Dwyer et al 2009). …”

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Healthy living practices in families and child health in Taiwan

Lin

Chiou

et al. 2015

Int J Public Health

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Healthy living practices in families and child health in Taiwan

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et al. 2015

Int J Public Health

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“…However, participants in the study also believed that hand hygiene behaviour should start early in life. A study in Seoul, Korea [38], conducted in an elementary school setting with Year 6 students, showed parents' handwashing practice, parent and child bonding, and shared time have a significant correlation with children's hand hygiene practice. Our study also suggested that both PCPs and parents thought hand hygiene practice should start with good role modelling in the home, with frequent reminders.…”

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Visibility and transmission: complexities around promoting hand hygiene in young children – a qualitative study

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Background Effective hand hygiene practice can reduce transmission of diseases such as respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and gastrointestinal infections, especially in young children. While hand hygiene has been widely promoted within Australia, primary care providers’ (PCPs) and parents’ understanding of hand hygiene importance, and their views on hand hygiene in reducing transmission of diseases in the community are unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the views of PCPs and parents of young children on their knowledge and practice of hand hygiene in disease transmission. Methods Using a cross-sectional qualitative research design, we conducted 30 in-depth interviews with PCPs and five focus groups with parents ( n = 50) between June 2014 and July 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. Data were thematically analysed. Results Participants agreed that hand hygiene practice was important in reducing disease transmissions. However, barriers such as variations of hand hygiene habits, relating visibility to transmission; concerns around young children being obsessed with washing hands; children already being ‘too clean’ and the need to build their immunity through exposure to dirt; and scepticism that hand hygiene practice was achievable in young children, all hindered participants’ motivation to develop good hand hygiene behaviour in young children. Conclusion Despite the established benefits of hand hygiene, sustained efforts are needed to ensure its uptake in routine care. To overcome the barriers identified in this study a multifaceted intervention is needed that includes teaching young children good hand hygiene habits, PCPs prompting parents and young children to practice hand hygiene when coming for an RTI consultation, reassuring parents that effective hand hygiene practice will not lead to abnormal psychological behaviour in their children, and community health promotion education campaigns.

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“…Whereas 67.7% of participants' mother's had primary school education and 32.3% had high school education, 53.8% of their father's had primary school or lower education and 46.3% had high school or higher education [ Table 2]. Song et al [20] investigated that how family factors affect hand-washing habits, and they indicated that family's high education level affects kids to wash their hands more precisely who already have handwashing habit. Previous studies showed that family factor is effective on children's health behaviors, and families are role model for developing emotions, behaviors, and thoughts in their children.…”

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Developing students' hand hygiene behaviors in a primary school from Turkey: A school-based health education study

Cevızcı¹,

Uludağ²,

Topaloğlu³

et al. 2015

Int J Med Sci Public Health

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Background: Hand hygiene is a cheap, simple, and an effective method that is necessarily implemented in crowded areas such as schools where infectious diseases can spread easily. Objective: To improve hand hygiene of students from grade 6 to 8 in a primary school from Canakkale, Turkey. Materials and Methods: This research was conducted in the educational year of 2012-2013 in a primary school, Kepez, Canakkale, Turkey. The subjects consisted of 185 primary school students from grade 6 to 8. Of these, 161 (participation rate = 87%) students participated. It was an educational study devoted to improve skills about hand hygiene. This study was carried out in three steps. First, a self-answered questionnaire and a standard checklist were used before hand hygiene training. Second, after 1 week from this first step, students were trained for improving hand-washing skills. Immediately afterward the training course, researchers observed each student for the assessment of their hand-washing habits and then filled the skill checklist. The last evaluation was made in the third step after 3 months from the training course. Students' hand-washing skill scores before and after the training were compared. Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS software, version 19.0. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results: Of 161 participants, 50.1% were boys and 49.0% were girls with the mean age of 12.6 ± 0.9 (min 11; max 14) years. Of these participants, 32.3% were from grade 6, 32.3% from grade 7, and 35.4% from grade 8; 98.1% students were living in Kepez and 1.9% were living in village. A statistically significant difference was detected between the first practice, which was made before training, and the second and third practices, which were made after training, in terms of handwashing skill development (p o 0.001). After the training, hand-washing skill scores showed a significant increase than before-training skill scores in both female and male students (p o 0.001). Conclusion: In this study, hand-washing skill training was found to be effective. In addition, students were found to be successful on implementing hand-washing skills in the last practice that was done after 3 months from the training course. However, it should be considered that newly acquired behaviors must be followed once in 6 months or in a year with continuity for these behaviors to be permanent and long standing.

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Family factors associated with children's handwashing hygiene behavior

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

Healthy living practices in families and child health in Taiwan

Healthy living practices in families and child health in Taiwan

Visibility and transmission: complexities around promoting hand hygiene in young children – a qualitative study

Developing students' hand hygiene behaviors in a primary school from Turkey: A school-based health education study

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