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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Oral & Personal Hygiene among the Government Secondary School Students of District Yamunanagar, Haryana

Author(s) Dr. Premjeet Chawla
Country India
Abstract Introduction: Personal hygiene is a public health tool that plays a very important role for disease prevention and health promotion in individuals, families and communities. Poor practice of knowledge and attitudes to personal hygiene such as hand washing play major roles in the high incidence of communicable diseases and therefore has negative consequences for a child’s long term overall development. Methodology: A cross sectional study was carried out to assess the knowledge attitude and practice on oral and personal hygiene among 392 Government school students of district Yamunanagar (Haryana) by using self-administered questionnaire technique. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 21. The study mainly focused on to assess the knowledge, attitude and practicing behavior of students in regards to hand washing, bathing, tooth brushing, clothing and taking care of nail and hair. Results: Hands washing before and after meal was found to be almost similar. 80% students wore clean clothes as well as cleaned their ears regularly. About 84 % used to brush their teeth daily. Mean ± SD values about Hand washing practice were (4.38 ± 0.07). Pearson Co-relation showed that habits related to cleanliness of hand (0.516**) were positively significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Mean ± SD value of cleanliness of ears and eyes among students were (4.3 ± 0.9). The correlation revealed significant positive linear correlations between knowledge-attitude (r=0.423, p<0.001) knowledge-practice (r=0.423, p<0.001) and attitude-practice (r =0.170, p<0.001). Conclusion: Majority of the students was practicing hygiene except for teeth, nail and bath hygiene. Periodical personal hygiene education and monitoring are needed for school students to promote hygienic practices.
Keywords Knowledge, Hand washing, Poor personal hygiene
Field Medical / Pharmacy
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-20
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2026.v07i02.4980
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