Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-1 | Issue-03 | 91-97
Original Research Article
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Personal Hygiene among Primary: School Children of Rural Area of Lahore, Pakistan
Farzana Parveen, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Hussain, Dr. Syed Amir Gilani
Published : June 30, 2018
Abstract
According to World Health Organization (WHO), “hygiene refers to
conditions and practices that assistance to keep up wellbeing and avoid the spread of
disease. Personal hygiene includes those practices performed by a person to care of
one’s bodily well- being, through cleanliness. A Cross sectional descriptive study
was conducted in primary school of Hussain Abad of Lahore. The instrument use for
the data collection was adopted questioner and convenient sampling technique was
used. Study included 119 primary school children most of them were males (55.4%),
the majority were rural resident (88.7%) with their age ranged between 5-12 years
and median age 10 years. More than three quarters of the children (77.1%) knew the
requirement of personal hygiene. On the other hand more than half of them had a
special towel and comb. About two thirds of children (65.4%) had good to moderate
knowledge with nearly three quarters (73.6%) had positive attitudes and more than
half (55.4%) had good practice. There was a moderate positive correlation between
knowledge score with both the attitude and practice scores. Male and older children
had a significant better knowledge, attitude and practice than female and younger
ones. Residence had no significant effect on children knowledge, attitude and
practice. Preschool children knowledge, attitudes, and practices about personal
hygiene were deficient in some aspects.