Effectiveness of STP on Knowledge and Practice Regarding Personal Hygiene Among Primary School Children
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
Background- Personal hygiene is an important set of practices in daily living of every human being as it maintains the current health status as well as promotes and elevate the standard of health. The meaning could be different from person to person depending on culture, beliefs, values, socio-economic status etc. Poor personal hygiene practices creates burden of communicable disease over community and to reduce it one should learn the practices by the beggning of learning phase of their life. It is assumed that the teaching program regarding better personal hygiene can be fruitful and can improve the level practice and knowledge of children regarding hygiene, so this study was carried out to know the effect of health education on the knowledge and practice regarding personal hygiene of primary school children of waghodiya taluka. Aims and ojectives- This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of structured teaching program on primary school children by assessing their existing knowledge and practice level regarding personal hygiene. Materials and Methods- Pre experimental one group Pre test and Post test research design with quantitative approach was used. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 80 samples from selectedprimary schools of waghodia taluka,Vadodara district. Self Administered Structured Questionnaire was used to collect the data. Analysis of data was done by descriptive and inferential statistics. The level significance of the study is fixed at 0.05level.
Authors and Affiliations
Ruhi Varghese, Swamy PGN, Parth Gosai, Ankit Christian, Disha Chaudhari, Shivani Bhanushali, Amit Sisodia, Rinal Jadav
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