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Are changes in hygiene behaviour sustained?

Waterlines, 2004
We know that hygiene promotion activities can reduce the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases. But do people forget the hygiene lessons they have learned and drop back to old habits? This article describes how researchers set about finding out the answers to these questions.
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Food hygiene behaviour among hospital food handlers

Public Health, 1989
One hundred and sixty one food handlers in two hospital settings were evaluated for their knowledge and practice of certain aspects of food hygiene. They were also screened for nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus as well as for enteric pathogens and parasites.
T, Oteri, E E, Ekanem
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Oral hygiene behaviour automaticity: Are toothbrushing and interdental cleaning habitual behaviours?

Journal of Dentistry, 2020
Toothbrushing and interdental cleaning are critical to maintaining good oral health. Literature is beginning to suggest that these behaviours may be conducted automatically, although the instigation ('deciding to do') and execution ('doing') of these behaviours has never been examined separately.
M H, Raison, R, Corcoran, G, Burnside, R, Harris   +3 more
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Studying hygiene behaviour - where are we now?

Waterlines, 1995
Water and sanitation programmes aim to improve people's health, mainly by reducing the rates of intestinal infections such as diarrhoea and worms. Long-term benefits will only come about, however, if people change some of their water-use and hygiene-related habits.
Astier Almedom Astier Almedom, Valerie Curtis Valerie Curtis   +1 more
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Hygiene Behaviour İn University Students İn Turkey

2020
Conclusions: Community-based awareness and education plans must initiated to improve regular hygiene practices at the level of university students in Turkey.
Sakarya Üniversitesi/Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi/Hemşirelik Bölümü, Çınar, Nursan, Dede, Cemile, Çınar, Nursan, Dede, Cemile   +4 more
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Changing hand hygiene behaviour might not be that easy

Journal of Hospital Infection, 2022
M B, Hansen, M, Stangerup, R, Hansen, L P, Sode, B, Hesselbo, K, Kostadinov, H, Calum, B S, Olesen   +7 more
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The use of microbiology in the study of hygiene behaviour.

Microbios, 1997
Faecal indicator bacteria have been used to measure levels of hygiene in a variety of settings. This paper describes a study in northern Botswana which used the isolation of faecal indicator bacteria in combination with other quantitative and qualitative techniques to gain information regarding hygiene behaviour.
E C, Kaltenthaler, B S, Drasar, C W, Potter   +2 more
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Dental hygiene behaviour

2023
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The role of public hygiene behaviour in tackling antibiotic resistance

Perspectives in Public Health
Continuing on from their previously published article “Developing better understanding of hygiene is key to developing hygiene behaviour change in home and everyday life settings,” Bloomfield and Ackerley delve into the highly important public health issue of antimicrobial resistance.
LM Ackerley, SF Bloomfield
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Evaluating Hygiene Behaviour in the Domestic Setting and the Impact of Hygiene Education

Journal of Infection, 2001
C, Griffith, E, Redmond
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