level of knowledge on the importance of basic personal hygiene among the Grade 5 pupils of WNU, Academic Year 2013-2014

It lifts their self-esteem and self-respect. If good personal hygiene practices are followed then there is less chance of infections developing.

Dirty hands is the common source of spreading infection. It is very important to keep hands clean to avoid getting infected and spreading infection in the community. It is important to wash hands to keep hands clean. There are two ways to keep hand clean, one way is wash hands with soap and warm water while rubbing hands together for minimum 15 to 30 seconds. Indication of washing hands with soap and water is when hands are visibly dirty, before and after eating, feeding, using the toilet, after coughing or sneezing, after using gloves, taking care of patients. There is also second way to clean hands, but it is advisable to wash hands with soap and water all the time, but it can ignore when soap and water is not available so it is okay to use hand gel or foam in the form of sanitizer. This helps to clean hands or kill germs when hands are not visibly dirty.

For most adults, hygiene is a personal and private concern. When you are helping someone with personal hygiene it's important to be sensitive and tactful, and to respect their dignity.

If you can’t keep your barracks room clean, how can others be sure that you practice personal hygiene? Cleaning is also great in its own way whereas if you live foul you could be riddled with disease and transfer that filth unto your battle buddies or even the civilians you may work with and nobody wants that. Without cleanliness I do not feel anyone could go far because it is as important as anything you are taught in school. It is one of those things people judge you on immediately and first impressions are everything. If a personal space can’t be maintained, I do not feel you can maintain a healthy relationship without cleanliness. If someone wants to come over, it would be an embarrassment to show them a filthy unkempt house, or wherever a person is to stay. There is a saying that cleanliness is next to Godliness. This old saying is said by some to have come from the bible. However, its first appearance in English even though in a different form seems to be by a person named “Francis Bacon”. In a book he wrote called “Advance of learning” 'Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.’ A minimal level of cleanliness is

Keeping a good standard of personal hygiene is important for the prevention of the development and spreading of infection, illnesses and bad odours. Children are taught from an early age about personal hygiene and its importance at giving across a positive body image and to reduce the risk of being bullied. People don’t like to be talked about in

Personal hygiene is essential for good health and well being, having a clean and respectable appearance and pleasant environment is key to maintaining the self-esteem of the people you care for. The better they feel, the more they can enjoy life, making life more pleasurable for both them and for the staff. For most adults, hygiene is a personal and private concern. When you are helping someone with personal hygiene it's important to be sensitive and tactful, and to respect their dignity.

Any mental health problem can affect a person’s ability and motivation to care for their personal hygiene needs. Anxiety, schizophrenia, Depression and other illnesses are known to possibly affect an

Personal hygiene is important for making you feel good, clean and comfortable, by following good personal hygiene it helps to eliminate a reduction of body odour which can be unpleasant for the person and others around them. Personal hygiene makes you have feelings of self-worth and can make you feel valued. By following this it can help prevent infections from forming on to the skin. Good personal hygiene can help someone’s personal appearance and make them feel more confident.

This study was intended to prove that hand hygiene practiced according to the CDC guidelines will decrease the incidence of hospital acquired infections. This could not really be proved in this study since the hospitals were not able to maintain improvement in hand hygiene. Health care workers were familiar with guidelines but significant practice changes were not maintained. Some of the infection rates did improve during this time but the correlation with hand hygiene is not consistent. There were other practice changes occurring during this same time and those changes may be responsible for the decreased infection rates.

The topic was chosen for a number of reasons, including the great need for improving hand hygiene, to preserve and promote positive care of patients, looking into issues which may hinder hand hygiene compliance.

(Nagel 22). Student nurses and volunteers should place emphasis on hand-washing before and after contact

A descriptive study was conducted on an application on determining hygiene behaviors of university students at Gazi university,2011. Results show that 61.38% students were always washing their hand after touching a pet or any animal. 92.28% were always washing their hand after using toilet, however 6.77% of them never brushed their teeth. And 33.23% of students were generally wearing the same skirts or trousers two days and 30.26% of them wearing the same underwear two days successively. 16.08% of students never used anti bacterial gel or wet wipes for cleaning hands. Thus this study suggested that hygiene

In today's society Hygiene is one of our most important habits for humans, but we don't know how the standards of cleaning became to exist today in different cultures. The subconscious of cleanliness has been with us since the beginning of the first foreign invader. Hygiene is represented in different ways by different cultures in a way that hygiene has become one of their most important practices. Every culture has their own sense of hygiene. In modern days we can see that if someone has a bad odor then another person they can be very delicate about it, but to other people it may not. They might see it as something normal. Hygiene is mainly important to most people of having good hygiene, keeping your body clean so it can stop you from having some bad illness or even bad odors. The discovery of knowledge about diseases, technological assessments, and pharmacology has far improved the knowledge of how to help people incorporate healthcare advances into their daily lives. Encouragement to get involved in healthy behaviors was not always implemented to the community back in the medieval era where the firsts improvements of hygiene started. Having good hygiene can prevent you from many things then you least expect to happen. Many people don’t really know what they can get from not keeping their body clean. Some schools take their time to teach the young students about having good hygiene.

Personal hygiene is a major part of your everyday life. It includes brushing your teeth, taking a shower, applying deodorant, wearing clean clothes, cooking your food properly, and washing your hands when necessary. There are many different types of hygiene and different ways of doing them. The types of hygiene are food and cooking hygiene, medical hygiene, and personal hygiene, there is even such a thing as excessive hygiene. Excessive hygiene may cause allergic diseases. Some parts of the body like the ear canal, or inside of the vagina are mostly better left alone for the body's own cleaning systems. Also, excessive application of soaps, creams, and ointments can adversely affect certain of the body's natural processes. For example,

There are many other examples which can be cited to indicate the pathetic condition of cleanliness and hygiene in our society. Hence, conscious efforts are needed to tackle this issue. There is a dire need to educate and sensitise people about the importance of cleanliness in light of our faith. In this regard social institutions such as educational institutions, the media and religious institutions can play a vital role.