Hand Washing Among School Children in Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract

Scarcity of adequate facilities in most schools in Bogotá prevents children from adopting proper hygienic behavior and thwarts health promotion efforts. The current renovation program of public schools in Bogotá provides a unique opportunity to meet the challenges of providing a supportive environment for adoption of healthy behaviors.

Handwashing behaviour among Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study in five provinces

“…Less than 1% used soap and water for handwashing before eating or feeding a child. In Bogota, Colombia, 16 33.6% of students were classified as Table 5 e Associations between sociodemographic factors and proper handwashing behaviour: c 2 test P, odds ratios (OR), 95% confidence intervals (CI) and Wald test P.…”

“…However, many studies have moved away from the simple assumption that knowledge about germs and diseases can change or affect attitudes and behaviours. 9 The Theory of Planned Behaviour 25 or extension theory 16 including cognitive and environmental factors were used, and motivation was the focus of the behaviour discussion in these studies. This model is more comprehensive in explaining behaviour formation and change, which could be the direction of future research and studies.…”

“…For environmental factors, inadequate water and sanitation sources are common reasons for poor hand hygiene in schools and rural areas. 16,17 Previous Chinese studies on handwashing have generally been small scale and have focused on specific groups or geographical areas, such as students, healthcare workers and rural people. Data from a large-scale, qualified study of handwashing among the Chinese population are lacking.…”

Doktor Muda Competencies: Self-efficacy and Hand Washing Demonstration Skill among School Children in Malaysia

“…Children are most susceptible to bacterial and viral infections (Lopez-Quintero, Freeman, & Neumark, 2009). Thus, primary school children are the targeted group for information dissemination and are being exposed to steps of proper hand washing (Scott, Curtis, Rabie, & Aidoo, 2007;Sansam et al, 2016;Storr et al, 2017).…”

“…Thus, primary school children are the targeted group for information dissemination and are being exposed to steps of proper hand washing (Scott, Curtis, Rabie, & Aidoo, 2007;Sansam et al, 2016;Storr et al, 2017). Hygiene education at schools (Aiello & Larson, 2002) and health promotion strategy (Strunz, 2013) proved to be the cheapest, most effective and common method of dealing with this issue (Lopez-Quintero, Freeman, & Neumark, 2009). In order to nurture a healthy, intelligent and active pupil; efforts are needed to empower them so that they can be responsible for their own health.…”