Taware Sachin, Gawai Priyanka, Chatterjee Ameeta, Thakur Harshad
1 Department of School Health Program, Ekam Foundation Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
2 Department of Research, Ekam Foundation Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Int Q Community Health Educ. 2018 Oct;39(1):31-38. doi: 10.1177/0272684X18809487. Epub 2018 Oct 30.
Personal hygiene plays an important role in preventing communicable diseases especially in children. In developing countries like India, the burden of communicable diseases is high which makes an awareness program imperative in school children. The objective was to study the outcome of school-based intervention program in promoting personal hygiene among the primary school children of Mumbai and Thane. This is a comparative study carried out from July 2015 to March 2016 between intervention and nonintervention groups before and after intervention. Using random sampling, 119 schools in Mumbai and 24 schools in Thane were selected. Our results suggest that knowledge, attitude, and practices were significantly different in end-line than baseline in the intervention group and had better effects as reflected in scores compared with comparison group. The findings reveal that a health education program clubbed with entertainment and interaction can bring positive attitudinal shift which is otherwise difficult to change.
个人卫生在预防传染病方面起着重要作用，尤其是在儿童中。在印度等发展中国家，传染病负担很重，这使得针对在校儿童开展提高认识的项目势在必行。目的是研究以学校为基础的干预项目在促进孟买和塔那小学生个人卫生方面的效果。这是一项在2015年7月至2016年3月期间对干预组和非干预组在干预前后进行的对比研究。采用随机抽样的方法，在孟买选取了119所学校，在塔那选取了24所学校。我们的结果表明，干预组的知识、态度和行为在终期与基线相比有显著差异，与对照组相比，得分所反映的效果更好。研究结果表明，将健康教育与娱乐和互动相结合的项目能够带来积极的态度转变，而这种转变在其他情况下很难实现。
