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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"hand washing"”.
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Hand-washing and its impact on child health in Kathmandu, Nepal
… a significant impact on a child’s growth rate. Hand-washing with soap has been found to reduce the risk of diarrhoea by 42-47%. Would this simple intervention also reduce the sub-clinical yet chronic form of gut damage associated with childhood growth faltering? Framed within the bio-cultural …
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Measuring hand washing behaviour in low income settings: methodological and validity issues
… attention and promotion has been focused on hand washing with soap due to the<br/>clear benefits observed in promoting and ensuring child health. However, the measurement and evaluation<br/>of hand washing behaviours remains complex. The Sanitation, Hygiene Education and Water Supply …
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Investigating the Validity of an Implicit Measurement Procedure for Habit: An Example Using Hand Washing
… Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT) to measure hand hygiene habit strength. I evaluate the concurrent and convergent validity of the Hand Hygiene SC-IAT (HH SC-IAT). I demonstrate that scores on the HH SC-IAT capture associations between hand hygiene cues and behavioural performance for …
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Monitoring and evaluation of a ceramic water filter and hand-washing intervention in Northern Ghana
… will sell Kosim filters and install Tippy-Tap hand-washing stations in 1250 households in Northern Ghana. This thesis presents the following project monitoring and evaluation components: (1) three-part evaluation framework; (2) baseline results; and (3) recommendations for an objective measure …
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Evaluation of an innovative, employee-driven sign on hand washing behavior changes using video observation
… size. The most important food safety topics were hand washing (60.9%), cleaning/sanitizing (78.3%), and cross contamination (69.9%). Employees believe that color, text, and multiple language options could increase employee recognition and retention of intended messages. New, employee-driven hand …
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Using information technology to model hand-washing behavior and to improve policies impacting elementary school absenteeism due to influenza
… posed was as following: “What is the e?ect of hand hygiene on the possible incidence rates among school children?” After creating an agent-based model representing the in?uenza transmission dynamic, the incidence rates were calculated based on the hand-washing success rates. The statistical …
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Imagery and Contamination Aversion
… compulsive behaviors related to CB-OCD (e.g.,, hand-washing). The present study utilized an imagery-priming paradigm to test the effects of experienced disgust on compulsive hand-washing. Seventy-eight participants were selected for high or low symptoms of CB-OCD. Following response training, …
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Why healthcare workers don't wash their hands: a behavioural explanation
Hand-washing compliance was examined by thematic analysis of focus group discussions in nurses, mothers and children. Perceptions in these groups were identical, with the purpose of hand-cleansing seen as self-protection from infection. This assessment is not grounded in microbiology, but is …
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Assessment of Educational Needs and Current Practices of Front-line Grocery Employees in the Deli and Bakery
… focused on glove use, cross-contamination, and hand washing. The results showed that most grocery food handlers desired hands-on, interactive and one-on-one training that occurs frequently, but is short: less than two hours in length. Overall, most grocery food handlers had general safe food …
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The Benefits of Social Stories in a Prekindergarten Classroom
… of non-autistic children. A target behavior of hand washing was selected for the seventeen children in the classroom to work on. The classroom teacher created a social story that would tell the children when they should be washing their hands during the school day. The social story was read …
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Hospital Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection Prevention
… different departments in the hospital, audits on hand hygiene and PPE compliance results reveal lack of knowledge of proper techniques. The goal is to have a clinical nurse leader assigned to each department in the hospital to implement the project at the center of the microsystem and to promote …
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Determination of Hygienic Practice and Status of Food Handlers in Catering Premises: A Case Study of Ilala Municipal Council
This study assessed the adherence to food handlers hygienic practice in relation to Microbial prevalence in catering premises at Ilala Municipal Council. The magnitude of the problem in the study area is estimated to be significantly high due to nature of the city. Two hundred and six individuals …
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An assessment of hygiene knowledge and practices: A case study of Choto informal settlement in Katima Mulilo
… refuse removal; personal hygiene, including hand washing, water source knowledge and knowledge of hygiene-related diseases. The researcher’s conclusion is that, although the people in the Choto informal settlement have some general knowledge about hygiene, the extent of that knowledge is …
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Embodied Cultural Cognition: How Culture Is Carried by Our Bodily Experiences
… acts after assuming the posture of rubbing their hands (a gesture that unwittingly resembles hand washing; an embodiment of cleanliness, removal of contamination, and sacredness). Further, results showed that less religious followers of faith-oriented religions (i.e., Protestants and Muslims) …
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Food Handling Practices Among Independent-living Elderly
… all other environmental factors combined. The handling and storage of food are potentially dangerous and demanding chores for those who may have the sensory losses associated with advancing age, fragile health, and limited resources.</p> <p>Group-administered questionnaires on the knowledge, …
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Awareness and Performance for Standards Precautions by Health care Occupation at a General Hospital
… 21 questions on standard precautions for hand washing, wearing personal protective equipment, managing sharp tools/linen/environment and respiratory etiquette. The study obtained permission from the medical center. A total of 187 questionnaires were distributed, out of which 184 were …
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CNL as Educator in the Emergency Department: Improving Hand Hygiene Outcomes
… Patient Safety Goal. Proper and frequent hand hygiene (HH) prevents HAI and various cross-infections in any setting. Audits of visual adherence for HH generates low compliance scores. During a yearlong improvement project, low monthly compliance scores of 52% in the Emergency Department …
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An Analysis of Current Standard Operating Procedures for Fresh and Fresh-Cut Produce in Retail Foodservice Operations
… The goal of this study was to identify food handler’s knowledge and behaviors when handling fresh and fresh cut produce in restaurants and grocery stores around the Southeast and Midwest region and to simulate those behaviors through behavioral modeling and microbial sampling experiments to …
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Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, concerning food hygiene, in children and young adults, in south east Wales
… most important by the majority of teachers being hand washing. The relationship between food hygiene and psychological precursors of behaviour was investigated. The data regarding food preparation practices was collated and was used to inform the construction of a questionnaire based on the Theory …
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Safe Food Handling Knowledge and Practices of Street Food Vendors at Louis Trichardt Makhado Local Municipality, South Africa
… This study aims to investigate safe-food handling knowledge and practices of street food vendors at Louis Trichardt, Makhado Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The researcher conducted the study using a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional descriptive survey …
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