Evaluación de los concéptos, actitudes y prácticas sobre higiene personal en los niños de quinto y sexto grado de las escuelas rurales de Cuenca-Azuay 1998

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding personal hygiene of school children in rural schools Cumbe, San Joaquin, and Turi, thereby seeking to establish statistical associations between non-compliance basic personal hiege and the emergence of various diseases. Besides the importance given to the subject and the main habits of it held by children of this study will be established. A total of 234 surveys average execution was in August fifth and sixth parallel existing schools study which get most of them 98.2 percent grade, know the basic rules, 41 percent giving no importance, about 75 percent, but 64 percent of them have diarrheal diseases, pediculosis 30 percent and 90 percent have dental caries