Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017

Knowledge levels on environmental sanitation among school children: Comparitive study

Dr. P. Kumari

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Environmental sanitation including schools is one of the components for preventing many of the communicable diseases in developing countries like India. The current research was focused on obtaining environmental sanitation knowledge scores from the three local school schools and one central school of 8^th and 9^th classes. The results indicated that irrespective of the school, all children from 9^th class scored better than 8^th class as the knowledge levels increased with the progressive age. The important comparative results clearly stated that central school children were far better than the remaining three local school children and differed significantly at one percent level. However, regarding the percentage knowledge scores all of them scored very well of more than 65 percent. Thus, the situation highlighted to fulfill the gap and further reinforcement of the existing knowledge scores on environment sanitation to protect against communicable diseases.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>