A Comparative Study to Evaluate the effectiveness of the Community Based Education Program on knowledge and attitude regarding personal hygiene among primary school going children of selected Govt. and Private school at kawardha District

Abstract

The research design adopted for the study was Pre – experimental design.. The setting of the study was at Govt. Primary school Amlidih , and Jyoti vidya mandir, Kawardha. The target population in the study was Primary school going children [8– 12year] who were studying at Govt. primary school and Jyoti vidya mandir at Kabirdham. In this study the sample size was 60 [Govt. school -30, Private school– 30]. The sampling technique was Systematic random sampling technique.The tool developed was structured interview schedule consist of three section they were section A socio demographic data , section B attitude checklist, section C multiple choice question knowledge regarding personal hygiene. The content validity of the tool was done by expert. And the value of ‘r’ = 0.8 was found to be, hence the tool were reliable. Pilot study was conducted on 10 primary school going children at Govt. primary school samnapur and 10 primary school going children at Sanskar Public school Private school at kawardha.