?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+approach+to+hygiene+education+among+rural+Indian+school+going+children&rft.creator=Dongre%2C+AR&rft.creator=Deshmukh%2C+PR&rft.creator=Boratne%2C+AV&rft.creator=Thaware%2C+P&rft.creator=Garg%2C+BS&rft.subject=Online+Journal+of+Health+and+Allied+Sciences&rft.description=Objectives%3A+To+find+out+the+prevalence+of+intestinal+parasites+and+its+epidemiological+correlates+among+rural+Indian+school+going+(6-14+years)+children+and+to+study+the+effect+of+focused%2C+need+based+child+to+child+hygiene+education+on+personal+hygiene+of+school+children.+Materials+and+Methods%3A+In+September+2007%2C+the+present+participatory+action+research+was+undertaken+at+a+feasibly+selected+village+Dhotra+(Kasar)+in+Wardha+district+of+central+India.+A+triangulated+research+design+of+quantitative+(survey)+and+qualitative+(transect+walk+%26+pile+sorting)+methods+was+used+for+the+needs+assessment+before+initiating+formal+hygiene+education.+Out+of+enlisted+172+children%2C+data+of+118+children+with+complete+information+was+used+for+final+analysis.+The+quantitative+and+qualitative+data+was+entered+and+analyzed+using+the+Epi+Info+6.04+software+and+Anthropac+4.98.1%2FX+software+package+respectively.+School+based+participatory+life+skills+based+child+to+child+hygiene+education+was+undertaken+for+message+dissemination+and+behavior+change.+The+effect+of+this+hygiene+education+on+identified+key+behaviors+was+assessed+after+one+month+Results%3A+Out+of+the+118+(50+male+and+68+female)+subjects+examined+21+(17.8%25%2C+95%25CI%2C+11.4+%E2%80%93+25.9%25)+had+intestinal+parasite+infection.+The+prevalence+of+intestinal+parasitic+infection+was+significantly+high+among+children+having+dirty+untrimmed+nails+(47.4%25%2C+95%25CI%2C+30.9+%E2%80%93+64.1%25)+followed+by+those+having+poor+hand+washing+practices+(37.2%25%2C+95%25CI%2C+22.9+%E2%80%93+53.2%25).+One+month+after+hygiene+education%2C+the+proportion+of+children+having+practice+of+hand+washing+with+soap+after+defecation+significantly+improved+from+63.6+%25+to+78%25.+The+proportion+of+clean+and+cut+nails+also+improved+from+67.8%25+to+80+%25+(p%3C0.05).+Conclusions%3A+The+need+based%2C+focused%2C+life+skills+based+child+to+child+hygiene+education+was+effective+for+behavior+change.+An+integrated+approach+of+drug+treatment+and+focused+participatory+hygiene+education+is+required+to+control+parasite+load+among+rural+Indian+school+going+children.&rft.publisher=Dr.+B.S.+Kakkilaya&rft.contributor=Kakkilaya%2C+Dr.+Srinivas&rft.date=2008-01-24&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5932%2F1%2F2007-4-2.pdf&rft.identifier=++Dongre%2C+AR+and+Deshmukh%2C+PR+and+Boratne%2C+AV+and+Thaware%2C+P+and+Garg%2C+BS++(2008)+An+approach+to+hygiene+education+among+rural+Indian+school+going+children.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5932%2F