Hand Hygiene Practices among School Children’s in Selected Schools, At Karad, Taluka

Abstract

"Hand washing" is one word common. Hand hygiene as cleaning hand without or with use of soap or water, for purpose to eliminate the microorganism and dirt. With the aim, assess the hand hygiene practices by modified observational checklist. One group pre-test study design was used. The data collected from the Rotary Shikshan Santha, Karad. 60 school going children were selected by using the simple random sampling. Data were tabulated and analyzed by the use of Descriptive &inferential statistics. Result: The result showed that the Maximum numbers of school going children 58% were males and minimum 42% were females. mean Hand Hygiene Practicevalue was 5.383. Chi-square test shown, significant association of hand hygiene practice score of an school going children and with the mothers’ education (χ2=16.436, p<0.05), and father’s education (χ2=23.016, p<0.05). Conclusion: Based on findings the result of study showed, the total hand hygiene practice of the school going children was 5.383 which was indicates that the children had inadequate practices regarding hand hygiene. So there is need to teach proper hand washing technique to improve the children's knowledge and practices regarding the hand hygiene.