A study to assess the effect of planned health teaching on knowledge of practices of selected personal hygienic practices among school children of Bharati Vidyapeeth School, Pune.

Asha Shankar Khobragade

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

A study to assess the effect of planned health teaching on knowledge of practices of selected personal hygienic practices among school children of Bharati Vidyapeeth School, Pune.

Asha Shankar Khobragade

Abstract :

 Background: The practice of personal hygiene is as old as the origin of mankind. Personal hygiene is indicated by the two words ‘PERSONAL’ and ‘HYGIENE’ which refer to the principles of health and sanitation to be practiced by individuals at a personal level. Personal hygiene if practiced properly gives great significance to the health status of people in the community, and in a country as a whole. In India the concept of personal hygiene is intermixed with several ritual ideas and traditions. The motto ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’, which is taught to a child even from the primary school days till adulthood guides what every individual becomes. The community health nurse can be involved in shaping the future of citizens by proper maintenance of their health and providing guidance and motivation through planned health teaching. Proper health attitudes and practices based on correct information needs to be developed from childhood to help an individual to attain the highest level of health for himself and his family and therefore his community Objectives: 1) To assess the knowledge regarding selected personal hygienic practices among school children before and after teaching in experimental and control group. 2) To assess the hygiene states of school children before and after teaching in experimental and control group. 3) To compare the knowledge regarding selected personal hygienic practices among school children between experimental and control group. 4) To correlate knowledge and Hygiene State of school children with selected demographic variable. Method: This study based on interventional evaluative approach with Quasi experimental pre and post research design. The total number samples selected for the study were 60. Girls student from both the schools were selected. The total number of students is 300 studying in 5th standard, and a list was prepared. Every 5th student was selected by systematic random sampling. 30 students from Bahrathi Vidyapeeth School were assigned to the experimental group and 30 students from Priyadarshni School were assigned to the control group. The tool was structured questionnaire interview schedule and observational checklist. Result and conclusion: The mean pre–test and post–test scores of samples in experimental group was 21.86 and 30.50 respectively whereas in the control group it was 20.96 and 18.96.There was no significant difference between pre–test and post–test knowledge scores of control group while significant difference was observed in experimental group at p < 0.05.This indicates that the planned health teaching is effective in increasing the knowledge of the samples regarding personal hygienic practices. The mean pre–test and post–test observation check list scores of control group were 10.73 and 10.83 respectively whereas in the experimental group it was 11.10 and 14.80. There was no significant difference between pre–test and post–test observation checklist scores of control group while highly significant difference was observed in experimental group at p < 0.01.This indicates that the planned health teaching is effective in increasing the observation practices of the samples regarding personal hygienic practices.