TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTION EDUCATION ON KNOWLEDGE AND HANDWASHING PRACTICES IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN THE ERA OF PANDEMI COVID-19
Keywords:
Washing hand, transmission-based precaution, transmission-based precaution, school-aged children, health education
Abstract
Washing hands is important to prevent various infectious diseases, including Covid-19. School-age children are a population at risk who must practice proper hand hygiene. This study aims to examine the effect of Transmission-Based Precaution (TBP) on knowledge and practice of hand washing in school age children. A total of 20 schoolchildren living in Islamic boarding schools participated in this study. Education is carried out in one meeting. The data was collected by filling out a questionnaire on knowledge and hand washing practices pre and post education. The results showed that providing TPB education increased knowledge about hand washing (p = 0.010), but it was not significant for hand washing practices (p = 0.282). Increasing knowledge should also pay attention to the attitude of school children in hand washing behavior. The process of providing education will be more embedded in school children after repeatedly implementing hand washing properly. The teachers and classmates involved can participate in hygiene education to encourage the hand washing behavior of students in areas at high risk of infectious diseases, especially Covid-19.References
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. (2002). Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings. MMWr, 51(16), 1-44.
Chittleborough, C. R., Nicholson, A. L., Basker, E., Bell, S., & Campbell, R. (2012). Factors influencing hand washing behaviour in primary schools: process evaluation within a randomized controlled trial. Health education research, 27(6), 1055-1068.
Contzen, N. & Mosler, H. J. (2015). Identifying the psychological determinants of handwashing: Results from two cross-sectional questionnaire studies in Haiti and Ethiopia. Am. J. Infect. Control, 43, 826–832.
Dickie, R., Rasmussen, S., Cain, R., Williams, L., & MacKay, W. (2018). The effects of perceived social norms on handwashing behaviour in students. Psychology, health & medicine, 23(2), 154-159.
Graves, J. M., Finsness, E. D., Quick, R., Nyando Integrated Child Health and Education Project (NICHE) Study Team, Harris, J. R., & Daniell, W. E. (2014). Teacher perspectives on implementing and sustaining a handwashing promotion intervention in Western Kenyan primary schools. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 34(2), 159-170.
Haas, J. P. (2016). Handwashing and nail clipping reduce risk of intestinal parasite infection in school-age children. Evidence-based nursing, 19(2), 49-49.
Hirai, M., Graham, J. P., Mattson, K. D., Kelsey, A., Mukherji, S., & Cronin, A. A. (2016). Exploring determinants of handwashing with soap in Indonesia: a quantitative analysis. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(9), 868.
Kratzel, A., Todt, D., V’kovski, P., Steiner, S., Gultom, M., Thao, T.T.N., Ebert, N., Holwerda, M., Steinmann, J., Niemeyer, D. and Dijkman, R. (2020). Inactivation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by WHO-recommended hand rub formulations and alcohols. Emerging infectious diseases, 26(7), 1592. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200915.
Lapinski, M. K., Maloney, E. K., Braz, M., & Shulman, H. C. (2013). Testing the effects of social norms and behavioral privacy on hand washing: A field experiment. Human Communication Research, 39(1), 21-46.
Mahmud, M. A., Spigt, M., Bezabih, A. M., Pavon, I. L., Dinant, G. J., & Velasco, R. B. (2015). Efficacy of handwashing with soap and nail clipping on intestinal parasitic infections in school-aged children: a factorial cluster randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med, 12(6), e1001837.
Sun, C., Wang, Q., Poudel Adhikari, S., Ye, R., Meng, S., Wu, Y., Mao, Y., Raat, H. and Zhou, H. (2019). Correlates of School Children’s Handwashing: A Study in Tibetan Primary Schools. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(17), 3217.
Yuen, K. S., Ye, Z. W., Fung, S. Y., Chan, C. P., & Jin, D. Y. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: The most important research questions. Cell & bioscience, 10(1), 1-5.
Published
2021-01-03
How to Cite
Dewi, L. C., Pratiwi, I. N., & Tristiana, R. D. (2021). TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTION EDUCATION ON KNOWLEDGE AND HANDWASHING PRACTICES IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN THE ERA OF PANDEMI COVID-19. Community Service Journal of Indonesia, 2(2), 28-35. https://doi.org/10.36720/csji.v2i2.253
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