Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in Improving Personal Hygiene among Urban Primary School Children-A KAP Study Priya Anshu1, Sushma M.1, Datta Tanudeep1, Sharma Vaishali1, Marise V. Lakshmi Prasanna2,* 1B. Pharmacy, 8th Semester students, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Gnanagangothri Campus, New BEL Road, M S R Nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India-560054 2Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Gnanagangothri Campus, New BEL Road, M S R Nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India-560054 *Corresponding author e-mail: lakshmiprasanna.pp.ph@msruas.ac.in
Online published on 24 January, 2020. Abstract Hygiene practices in early childhood education are very essential. In developing countries there is an increased burden of communicable diseases among children due to poor personal hygiene. Our study aimed to assess the effectiveness of intervention in improving the knowledge, attitude and practice on personal hygiene among urban primary school children. This prospective interventional study was conducted amongst 2 government and 2 private schools in Bengaluru. The schools were selected using multistage random sampling method. At 95% confidence interval (CI) sample size was 357. The students belonging to the classes 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th were interviewed for both pre-test and post-test using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was validated using Cronbach's alpha and the score was 0.71. Respondents were assessed for their initial knowledge, attitude and practice towards personal hygiene in pre-test, followed by a planned teaching program. Post-test was administered to the same population after a period of one month. Descriptive statistics and paired sample T-test were applied to find the correlation within the groups. Based on gender distribution the boys in government and private schools were 43.37% and 53% whereas girls were 56.63% and 47% respectively. The post scores for government and private schools were found to be 98.5% and 94.6% for knowledge, 84.3% and 85.2% for attitude, 97.75% and 97.8% for practice. Our study demonstrated significant improvements in the knowledge, attitude and practice from the baseline. In future we recommend periodic awareness regarding personal hygiene in communities to reduce the prevalence of communicable diseases. Top Keywords Personal Hygiene, Children, KAP. Top |