Personal Cleanliness for Children with Specific Needs: Scoping Review

Abstract

The increasing number of children with specific needs is one of worlds current issue. Children with specific needs face various health issue, have limitation, emotional and behavioral delays, limited intellectual development, and also little participation at school or social activity. Those issues leads to children self-relience, which one of them is personal cleanliness social support such as from family support is needed by children with specific needs so they able do their personal cleanliness. The aim of this study is to learn about how to care personal cleanliness of children with specific needs. This study using scoping review methods. Author use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, or AND NOT) to trace journal in conjunction with keyword "personal hygiene" AND "children with specific needs" as for inclusion criteria journal must already indexed by Scopus at least Sinta 4 journal and in range of year 2017 until 2022. The conclusion of this study is there are high correlation between family support and personal cleanliness of children with specific needs in 11 (eleven) analyzed publications. Children with specific needs have complex issue in personal cleanliness so they needs support from their family, including their parents or kinsman and needs specific formula in their personal cleanliness education.