Effect of health education about personal hygiene on student’s health in primary school

Abstract

The students’ knowledge of personal hygiene can implement by teachers in schools or parents at home. The study conduct to assess the effect of health education bout personal hygiene on student’s health through the interventional program. A quasi-experimental study pre-post-test design use in this study. Previous of the using intervention program, E-histolytica notice higher in the control group 20 (69%), giardia lamblia 9 (29 %) in the intervention, while after the intervention program, giardia lamblia 23 (22.1%) in the interventional group rate is decreasing, there was a statistically significant after participant receiving health massages and practice hand washing technique (p-value =.039). The score of personal hygiene and the student’s awareness of health messages increased (p = < 0.01). This study confirmed that the effect of health education was highly significant among participants after the intervention program. A study concluded that raising awareness of students about personal hygiene to decrease health problems associated with poor personal hygiene can be provided through health education massages in collaboration with a ministry of health and education.

Keywords

• Health education
• Personal hygiene
• Student’s health

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