신윤희, 김은지, 신효은, 이재희, 정세린

연세대학교 원주의과대학 간호학과

Background: School age is a time when students form
habits of healthy behavior that affect their lifetime health.
However, most previous studies were conducted on hand
washing and brushing teeth and no studies included
bathing in personal hygiene. We aim to improve knowledge
and performance about hand washing, brushing
teeth, and bathing in school age children. The study was
based on the health belief model and ways to establish
proper personal hygiene habits.
Methods: A non-equivalent control group, pretest-posttest
design was used in this study. The educational content
included hand hygiene, oral hygiene and bath hygiene. After
the pre and post evaluation of the control group, the
experimental group received the education and pre and post
evaluation over five weeks. Then, the education
program was provided to the control group. This study was
conducted over ten weeks from April to June 2017.
Results: Knowledge on personal hygiene habits (F=8.41,
P=0.006) and performance of personal hygiene hab￾its
(F=29.09, P<0.001) were higher in the experimental group
compared to the control group after controlling
the covariates.
Conclusions: The results of this study show obvious
difference between the experimental group and control
group on knowledge and performance for personal hygiene
habits. This result demonstrated that the program
based on the health belief model was effective. It is
necessary to develop other effective programs including
hand washing, brushing teeth, and bathing to help students
develop good personal hygiene habits.
Korean J Health Promot 2018;18(1):51-59
Keywords: Child, Hygiene, Habits, Education