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The study examined the influence of social variables on hygiene practices among senior secondary school students in Calabar Educational Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted the inferential survey research design. The study was guided by two null hypotheses. The population consisted of all the 20,470 senior secondary school students of 81 public secondary schools during the 2016/2017 academic session. The study adopted a stratified random sampling technique in selecting a sample of 819 students. Social Variables on Hygiene Practices Questionnaire (SVHPQ) was the instrument used for data collection. Mean and standard were used for data analysis. The data collected were analysed using ANOVA and Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis tested at .05 levels of significance. The study revealed that there is a significant influence of awareness and cultural beliefs on secondary school students' hygiene practices in the Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State. The study concluded that hygiene practices are more of behavioural development rather than economic power and that the awareness of health, social and psychological aspects of good hygiene behaviour are very important. Based on these findings, the study recommended that religious leaders in churches or mosques should be encouraged to engage in constant awareness on proper hygiene practices and buckets of water, soup and towels should be made available in schools to increase the level of cleanliness in students. |
