Awareness of Food and Hand Hygiene Practice Among Primary School Children During Covid 19

Year 2023, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 1 - 11, 18.07.2023

Ayşegül Kaptanoğlu Ülkü Demirci

Abstract

Hygiene is the name given to all activities or measures taken for a healthy life. All the practices to be done and the cleaning measures to be protected from the environments that will harm health are defined as hygiene. Viral respiratory infections pose a particular risk for the urban population. The aim of this study is to determine the habits, behaviors, food and hand hygiene practice awareness in primary school children during the Covid 19 epidemic. The study design was a cross-sectional survey. The study questionnaire was designed based on a review of the literature and expert consultation. The questionnaire included the knowledge about preventing parasite, microbe and viruses through food washing. In this study, it is important that the behaviors of the students who are trained in elementary classes are permanent and long-term. For this reason, it was observed that when these acquired behaviors were followed three months and continuity was achieved, the education offered provided positive behavior change. After the education, the students' food washing practices are shown in the school corridors of the school management, researchers' and teachers' sensitivity on the subject and the posters prepared. The quality of evidence, which can be found in sources related to food washing and acute respiratory infections, is very low. Randomized controlled trials are urgently needed to rigorously investigate the effect of food washing on morbidity and mortality in public traveled, lived, and studied areas.

Keywords

Hygiene, food washing, elementary classes, respiratory infections

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