Comparison of structured observation and pictorial 24 h recall of household activities to measure the prevalence of handwashing with soap in the community
| Autor: | Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Valerie Curtis, Katie Greenland, HE Lewis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Hand washing
SOAP computer.internet_protocol Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Health Behavior Mothers 010501 environmental sciences Soaps 01 natural sciences Medical Records 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hygiene Environmental health Humans 030212 general & internal medicine 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Family Characteristics Measure (data warehouse) Recall Incidence (epidemiology) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Pollution Child Preschool Psychology computer 24 h recall Hand Disinfection |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 29:71-81 |
| ISSN: | 1369-1619 0960-3123 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09603123.2018.1511772 |
| Popis: | This study compared structured observation with a 24 h pictorial recall of household activities ('sticker diary') to measure the prevalence of handwashing with soap (HWWS) in the community. The study was done within a cluster-randomised trial evaluating a handwashing promotion programme in Bihar, India. HWWS at key occasions in mothers and school children was measured by structured observation in 299 households from 32 villages. Sticker diaries recalling common activities, including personal hygiene, were used to measure HWWS in 299 households from a further 20 villages. Sticker diary HWWS prevalence estimates were about 13% points higher than structured observation estimates, but the differences varied by the type of handwashing occasion. This study confirms structured observation as the method of choice for the study of handwashing behaviours. The sticker diary method may be useful in large-scale surveys. Sticker diaries may overestimate HWWS at important occasions, but probably less so than conventional questionnaire tools. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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