Hand Hygiene Awareness of the Middle School Students and Use of Theater Performance

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 81 - 84, 21.12.2018

Cihan Önen Yüksel Koç

https://doi.org/10.17678/beuscitech.370499

Abstract

• Present
  study has been conducted to investigate the effects of raising the awareness of
  middle-school students toward hand hygiene via using theater performances. The
  population of this intervention study consists of 5th and 6th graders studying
  at the Middle-school. Prior to using the theater performance, 15.7% of students
  practiced proper hand-washing technique while after the theater, the ratios
  escalated to 33.8%. After the intervention, there was a statistically
  significant increase in the ratio of respondents having emphasized the need to
  wash hands as shown by the demonstrated technique(p<0.05). İt was
  demonstrated that upon performing drama, entertainment and didactic scenarios
  integrated theater activities among middle-school students, there was a heightened
  level of hand-hygiene awareness toward a manifold of issues in the short term.
  In addition it was detected that by teaching the proper technique students
  achieved to double increase their knowledge on hand hygiene.
  

Keywords

Education, theater, hand hygiene, awareness, middle-school, students

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