Assessment Of Personal Hygiene Practice Among Preparatory School Students In Jimma Town, South West Ethiopia.

Abstract

Background: - Personal hygiene is especially important to reduce and prevent diarrhea, skin and eye infection. Personal hygiene includes health practices such as bathing, washing hair, brushing teeth. Cleaning clothes. Objective: - The main objective of study is to assess the personal hygiene practice of preparatory school students in Jimma town. Methods: - A cross sectional study was conducted in governmental preparatory school from March 15-17, 2014. From the total preparatory students, 275 were selected by using systematic random sampling technique. The raw data was collected using structured questionnaires’ and observational check list. Result : - Among result 56% washed 2 or 3 times per week,28% washed weekly, 7.3% washed daily 12.7% washed in every 2 weeks and also from the total students 90.7% practiced washing hands after visiting latrine. Similarly 51.3% students washed their hands before and after eating and all of them trimmed their finger nails and toe nails.There is significant association between students personal hygiene practice with their sex, and grade level but no significant association with their age. Conclusion and recommendation: - there is no lavatory,and proper solid waste disposal system. There is no adequate water supply, and dirty and odoured latrines. Most of students (72.7%) had good personal hygiene practice. Below half students conduct fair and poor personal hygiene practice. No provision of health education to the students and did not conduct personal hygiene checkup .the school should be facilitate school utilities such as hand washing basin or lavatory , onsite storage of refuses and proper solid waste disposal system