Abstract
Hygiene awareness plays an important role in preventing various communicable diseases like diarrhea. Intervention based researches should be conducted widely to address the issue of sanitation and hygiene. Self-help group members of rural area are focused as they are the best ambassadors in the villages to create awareness. Before the implementation of the module through workshop, pretest was conducted to assess their hygiene awareness. Later workshop was conducted and posttest was also done. A self-prepared interview schedule was used to collect data. It was found that there is significant difference in the pre and post test results. The knowledge and awareness of the respondents improved after the module implementation. All the respondents after the workshop mentioned that they would adopt better personal hygienic practices in order to promote a healthy life.
Highlights
For the purpose of this study, the term ‘hygiene’ is used to refer to the knowledge, behaviour and practices used to break the chain of infection transmission in the home and community
Personal hygiene practices mainly focus on frequency of head bath in a week, face wash in a day, toothbrush in a day, hand wash before food, hand wash after defecation, and hand wash after cleaning vagina during menstruation
There is no significant difference between personal hygiene score at pre- and post- stages of self help group members
Summary
For the purpose of this study, the term ‘hygiene’ is used to refer to the knowledge, behaviour and practices used to break the chain of infection transmission in the home and community. 31% of the children had Caries, 15% had fully blocked wax in the ear, 21% had coated tongue, and 11% had skin infections This indicated the need for giving more stress on creating. Seenivasan et al (2015) conducted a study to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of menstrual hygiene among rural women. Large numbers of rural women have been enrolled into SHGs by both government and non government organizations with the aim to empower women. The objective of these groups is to lend money and savings, and to focus on enhancing skills, knowledge, capacities, and awareness generation. There is a wide need to assess the level of sanitation and hygiene awareness among the masses, and to promote healthy sanitation and hygiene practices by using multiple strategies
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