Senior Elizabeth
1.EACH Social and Community Health, Ringwood, Australia.
Glob Health Promot. 2014 Mar;21(1):23-8. doi: 10.1177/1757975913508420. Epub 2014 Jan 21.
This article reports on the planning, implementation and evaluation of an intervention to improve school students' experience of using the school toilet in a primary school in Melbourne, Australia. 20 students from grades 2-6 participated in focus groups, to discuss what they valued about the school and raise awareness of issues they were not happy about. A common theme from all of the focus groups was that students reported avoiding use of the school toilets. Using the ideas generated from the focus groups, the student council (with input from staff), developed a self-administered pre- and post-test questionnaire. This was given to 220 students in grades 1-4, aged 6-10 years. Improvements suggested by the students were made to the toilet block, and then a post-test was administered. Independent t tests were conducted. The pre-test indicated that 71% of girls and 65% of boys feared the behaviour of other students in the toilet. Overwhelmingly, the qualitative comments focused on poor student behaviour in the toilets, with lack of privacy due to student misbehaviour mentioned in 90% of the comments. After the toilets were revamped, the greatest gains were made in students' attitudes toward the toilets, with a 37% increase in students who indicated they now liked the toilet facility. Incidents of vandalism also decreased; however, student misconduct in the toilets was still regarded as a problem. Involving students in refurbishing their toilets improved how students viewed the toilets and reduced vandalism; however, a different intervention is required to change inappropriate behaviours in the toilet.
本文报道了一项旨在改善澳大利亚墨尔本一所小学学生使用学校厕所体验的干预措施的规划、实施和评估情况。来自二至六年级的20名学生参加了焦点小组讨论，以探讨他们对学校的重视之处，并提高对他们不满意问题的认识。所有焦点小组的一个共同主题是，学生们表示会避免使用学校厕所。学生议会（在工作人员的参与下）根据焦点小组提出的想法，编制了一份自我管理的前后测试问卷。该问卷发放给了220名一至四年级、年龄在6至10岁的学生。根据学生们提出的改进建议对厕所进行了改造，然后进行了后测。进行了独立样本t检验。前测表明，71%的女生和65%的男生担心厕所里其他学生的行为。绝大多数定性评论都集中在学生在厕所里的不良行为上，90%的评论都提到了因学生行为不端而缺乏隐私。厕所翻新后，学生对厕所的态度有了最大改善，表示现在喜欢厕所设施的学生增加了37%。破坏行为事件也有所减少；然而，学生在厕所里的不当行为仍然被视为一个问题。让学生参与厕所翻新改善了学生对厕所的看法，并减少了破坏行为；然而，需要采取不同的干预措施来改变厕所里的不当行为。
