Health Promotion Intervention for Hygienic Disposal of Children's Faeces in a Rural Area of Nigeria

Autor/inn/en	Jinadu, M. K.; Adegbenro, C. A.; Esmai, A. O.; Ojo, A. A.; Oyeleye, B. A.
Titel	Health Promotion Intervention for Hygienic Disposal of Children's Faeces in a Rural Area of Nigeria
Quelle	In: Health Education Journal, 66 (2007) 3, S.222-228 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8969
DOI	10.1177/0017896907080120
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Community Leaders; Intervention; Health Promotion; Mothers; Family (Sociological Unit); Primary Health Care; Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Local Government; Hygiene; Public Health; Sanitation; Disease Control; Child Health; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community leadership; Gemeindeleitung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Mother; Mutter; Familie; Gesundheitsvorsorge; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Gemeindeverwaltung; Gesundheitswesen; Betriebshygiene
Abstract	Objective: Community-based health promotion intervention for improving unhygienic disposal of children's faeces was conducted in a rural area of Nigeria. Setting: The study was conducted in Ife South Local Government area of Osun State, Nigeria. Design: The study was conducted in 10 randomly selected rural villages: five control and five active. Method: The intervention, which lasted for nine months, consisted of hygienic use of chamber-pots for the disposal of children's faeces, discouraging children from defecation around households, construction and use of affordable Ventilated Improved Latrines (VIP) and hand-washing with soap and water by mothers after cleaning up the children's faeces. It was undertaken by primary health care workers, using group and individual discussions, plus demonstrations to mothers and community leaders. Results: Significantly more mothers in the intervention communities (68 per cent compared with 6 per cent) were using chamber-pots ("pow") for defecation, a much smaller proportion of children in the active group (25 per cent compared with 72 per cent) defecated on the floor of the households. Significantly more households in the intervention group upgraded their unsanitary latrines to sanitary ones by ventilating them (7 per cent compared with 3 per cent). Also, significantly more mothers washed their hands with soap and water (20 per cent in the intervention group compared with 9 per cent in the control group). Conclusions: This study has brought about positive changes in the knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers and their children towards the disposal of children's faeces in rural communities. The study therefore has significant implications for the development of programmes for the control of childhood diarrhoea in developing countries. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10