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Handwashing practices and associated factors among public primary schoolchildren in the Benadir Region, Somalia [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundIn Somalia, numerous schools lack adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities, which is associated with a high burden of diarrheal and respiratory infections among school-aged children.
Abdinasir Bashir Nuh, Ali Bile Farah, Abdifatah Afyare, Abdirashid Hassan Da’ar, Mohamed Yusuf Abdi   +4 more
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Factors associated with handwashing behaviour among rural schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study in Georgia, 2024 [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Handwashing is a critical measure for reducing diarrhoeal and respiratory infections among school-aged children, yet maintaining consistent practice remains a challenge.
Mariam Izoria, Natia Kakutia, Levan Metreveli, Levan Baramidze, Luiza Gabunia, Nino Gvajaia   +5 more
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Handwashing with soap and national handwashing projects in Korea: focus on the National Handwashing Survey, 2006-2014 [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2015
OBJECTIVES: Handwashing is the most fundamental way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Correct handwashing can prevent 50 to 70% of water-infections and foodborne-infections. We report the results of a fact-finding study on general handwashing
Moo-Sik Lee, Su Jin Hong, Young-Taek Kim
doaj   +3 more sources

Spatial Distribution and Determinant Factors of Handwashing Practice With Essential Agents Among Households in Ethiopia

International Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the spatial distribution and determinant factors of handwashing practice using essential handwashing agents (soap and water) among households in Ethiopia.Methods: A two-stage stratified cluster sampling technique ...
Sewnet Adem Kebede, Biruk Shalmeno Tusa, Adisu Birhanu Weldesenbet   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in handwashing behaviours for COVID-19 prevention: Longitudinal evidence from online surveys in 10 sub-Saharan African countries.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2021
Handwashing is essential for respiratory virus prevention, but uptake of handwashing in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic remains under-explored. This study examines trends in and determinants of handwashing practices for COVID-19 prevention in 10 ...
Bolanle Olapeju, Zoé Mistrale Hendrickson, Joseph G Rosen, Dominick Shattuck, J Douglas Storey, Susan Krenn, Marla Shaivitz, Elizabeth Serlemitsos, Tuo-Yen Tseng, Samantha W Tsang, Rajiv N Rimal, Stella Babalola   +11 more
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Handwashing Message Type Predicts Behavioral Intentions in the United States at the Beginning of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Handwashing has been widely recommended to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Despite this, handwashing behavior remains low in the general public. Social marketing has been employed as a successful health promotion strategy for changing many health ...
John Matkovic, Kelly S. Clemens, Kate Faasse, Andrew L. Geers   +3 more
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Handwashing Practice of Food Establishment Customers, Microbial Quality of Handwashing Water, and Associated Factors in Ginjo Kebele, Jimma Town, Southwest Ethiopia

Environmental Health Insights, 2022
Handwashing plays a major role in preventing the spread of infection and, if poorly implemented, leads to different illnesses. However, the quality of water meant for handwashing and handwashing practice and hand hygiene conditions of food establishment ...
Mahmud Ahmednur, Mesud Esmael, Feyiso Feresa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of handwashing on the reduction of Escherichia coli on children's hands in an urban slum Indonesia

Journal of Water and Health, 2023
Poor hand hygiene practice has been linked to an increase in the number of infections among children in urban slums. Hands are considered an intersection for bacterial transmission, but it is unclear whether the handwashing technique affects bacteria ...
Mahmud Aditya Rifqi, Umi Hamidah, Neni Sintawardani, Hidenori Harada, Sikopo Nyambe, Akira Sai, Taro Yamauchi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors predicting proper handwashing practice amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in India: a field-based cross-sectional study

Journal of Water and Health, 2022
Proper handwashing is one of the effective ways to prevent many communicable diseases, including COVID-19. We explored the handwashing practices in a rural Indian population before the probable third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shibaji Gupta, Debasis Das, Arup Chakraborty, Rudradeep Banerjee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Handwashing Practice and Its Predictors Among Mothers of Children Aged 0 to 23 Months in South Ethiopia: Community Based Cross-Sectional Study

Environmental Health Insights, 2021
Background: Maternal handwashing practice is an important measure to prevent the spreading of childhood disease. Handwashing is still being practiced to a very low extent especially at critical times since the global prevalence of handwashing with soap ...
Temesgen Mekonen, Amha Admasie, Yakob Lencha Leka, Damene Darota, Fentaw Wassie Feleke   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source