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Level of Hand Hygiene Compliance and Its Associated Factors Among Health Care Workers at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Environmental Health Insights, 2022
Background: Poor hand hygiene is an important source of infection, but maintaining hand hygiene is the most important measure to prevent infections. Hand hygiene compliance and its associated factors are not well recognized in Ethiopia.
Muluken Tadesse, Alebachew Shimelash, Eniyew Tegegne   +2 more
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Health Education Improve Behavior and Self-efficacy on Personal Hygiene Among Children with Intellectual Disability [PDF]

, 2019
Personal hygiene is one of the basic human needs and must be kept clean, including scalp and hair, eyes, nose, ears, nails of hands and feet, skin and overall body care.
Akrom, A. (Akrom), Erviana, E. (Erviana), Hidayati, T. (Titiek), Nurasa, I. (Indri)   +3 more
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Comparative Clinical Study Testing the Effectiveness of School Based Oral Health Education Using Experiential Learning or Traditional Lecturing in 10 Year-Old Children [PDF]

, 2015
Background School based oral health education through traditional lecturing has been found successful only in improving oral health knowledge, while has low effectiveness in oral hygiene and gingival health.
Angelopoulou, Matina V., Kavvadia, katerina, Oulis, Constantine J., Taoufik, Konstantine   +3 more
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Treatment Adherence among HIV and TB Patients Using Single and Double Way Mobile Phone Text Messages: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2022
Background. Research has shown that patients fail to adhere to ART and TB treatment due to the long duration of both therapies, side effects, and forgetfulness. Objective. To assess the role of the double-way and single-way SMS on adherence to HIV and TB
Odette Dzemo Kibu, Vincent Verla Siysi, Same Ekobo Albert Legrand, Elvis Asangbeng Tanue, Dickson Shey Nsagha   +4 more
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Systematic Review: Affecting Behaviour of Hygiene and Health Care of the Eldery

Jurnal Promkes: The Indonesian Journal of Health Promotion and Health Education, 2021
Background: The Elderly is an age group that has decreased organ function which is susceptible to various diseases. The elderly also experience physical decline which can affect personal hygiene and health care behavior.
Windya Kartika Paramita
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Compliance of Healthcare Workers with Hand Hygiene Practices in the Northeast of Iran: an Overt Observation [PDF]

, 2018
Hand hygiene (HH) is one of the most effective methods to prevent transmission and spread of microorganisms from one patient to another, also, it used to reduce the spread of pathogens in clinical settings and to help control outbreaks but compliance is ...
Ghazvini, K. (Kiarash), Nezhad, R. V. (Reza), Yaghoubi, A. (Atieh)   +2 more
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Sleep hygiene behaviours mediate the association between health/e‐health literacy and mental wellbeing

Health Expectations, 2023
Background Health literacy and e‐health literacy are important factors helping people shape awareness of health behaviours in different aspects, including sleep hygiene behaviours. Good sleep hygiene behaviours promote sleep quality and are beneficial to
Mehran Alijanzadeh, Rafat Yahaghi, Jalal Rahmani, Nahid Yazdi, Elahe Jafari, Hashem Alijani, Narges Zamani, Razie Fotuhi, Elham Taherkhani, Zeinab Buchali, Masoume Zarenejad, Narges Mahmoudi, Najmeh Shahmahdi, Leila Poorzolfaghar, Safie Ahmadizade, Azam Shahbazkhania, David Gozal, Chung‐Ying Lin, Amir H. Pakpour   +18 more
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Opportunities for faculty-librarian collaboration in an expanded dentistry curriculum. [PDF]

, 2018
With the increased emphasis on evidence-based practice, developing information literacy (IL), as well as other literacies (e.g., oral), earlier in programs is becoming widely accepted in medicine and allied fields.
Lowe, M. Sara, Quirke, Michelle, Stone, Sean M.   +2 more
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A case–control study of agricultural and behavioral factors associated with leptospirosis in Vietnam

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Introduction Leptospirosis is a neglected disease in Vietnam. Until now, there has been limited knowledge about risk factors of this disease in Vietnam.
Luu Phuong Dung, Pham Thanh Hai, Luong Minh Hoa, Tran Ngoc Phuong Mai, Nguyen Thi My Hanh, Phan Dang Than, Van Dinh Tran, Nguyen Tu Quyet, Hoang Hai, Do Bich Ngoc, Nguyen Thị Thu, Le Thi Phuong Mai   +11 more
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An exploratory qualitative study of caregivers' knowledge, perceptions and practices related to hospital hygiene in rural Niger

Infection Prevention in Practice, 2021
S U M M A R Y: Background: The risk of healthcare-associated infections is exacerbated by poor hygiene practices in health care facilities and can contribute to increased patient morbidity and mortality.
Caroline Marquer, Ousmane Guindo, Issa Mahamadou, Elodie Job, Susan M. Rattigan, Céline Langendorf, Rebecca F. Grais, Sheila Isanaka   +7 more
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