This study is made necessary by the need to see the state of the personal clean practices of school pupils as well as referring to practices or policies that do not negatively affect the environment hygiene environments and to compare this rank between the public and private schools, to form evidence-based pieces of advice on how to advance further or strengthen school-based energy program in the state. Children the one are healthy and well-augment are better able to engage adequately in class and thereby benefit from instruction. By resulting in days misplaced from illness, weak hygiene practises contribute to the increasing burden of communicable afflictions. This comparative cross-divided study was conducted in four public and private primary schools in Port Harcourt LGA, Rivers State. The sample magnitude was calculated and 139 pupils were carelessly selected, 75 in all and 64 in the private schools. Data collection was accomplished the use of interviewer-administered inquiry. Data was analysed using SPSS Version 16. Differences in resources were compared utilizing Student’s t-test while association between explicit variables were examined accompanying Chi-Square (X2) test. A probability worth ?0.05 was considered statistically significant.Public and preparatory school pupils had very good cleanliness knowledge (?2=0.101; p=0.97). Assessment of the individual hygiene disclosed that the proportion of pupils who were ranked as ‘very clean’ was greater in the private schools than the public schools, even though not statistically significant (?2=2.881; p=0.277). There were significant distinctnesses in favour of the private schools in the cleanliness of the nails, crowd (skin) and mouth/dentition with p-principles of 0.027, 0.003 and 0.003 respectively. Pupils in public and private schools have a very extreme level of hygiene information but low cleanliness practice. The study forms part of the baseline for judging future programming and invasions for addressing cleanliness behaviour among schools and school children. This take care of indicate that supplementary health troop are needed in Nigeria and additional poor nations to take care of the health of schoolchildren.
Author(s) Details:
Ifeoma Nwadiuto,
Department of Public Health and Disease Control,
Rivers State Ministry of Health, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Lukman
Ango,
Department
of Public Health and Disease Control, Rivers State Ministry of Health, Rivers
State, Nigeria.
Felix Emeka Anyiam,
Centre for Health and Development, University of Port Harcourt, Port
Harcourt, Nigeria.
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