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Knowledge of Students with Blindness regarding Hand Hygiene

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Community Health Nursing

Abstract

Germs are everywhere and can attach to hands and other items through daily contact. Hand hygiene is one of the most crucial measures to get rid of germs and prevent their spreading. Students with blindness (SWB) are at a higher risk of infection due to using their hands to discover the world around them. The community health nurses are required to estimate students with blindness' knowledge about hand hygiene to care for these students; and support them to live and work in the community healthfully. For that, this study aimed to assess the knowledge of students with blindness regarding hand hygiene. This was conducted through a descriptive cross-sectional study at Alnour School in Mansoura City on 39 students with blindness recruited conveniently; by a structured interview questionnaire to identify demographic characteristics, and assess knowledge of the students with blindness regarding hand hygiene. All students with blindness had a poor level of knowledge regarding hand hygiene. It is recommended to design health educational programs to raise students with blindness' awareness regarding hand hygiene.

DOI

10.21608/mnj.2024.250323.1361

Keywords

Keywords: hand hygiene, students with blindness, Community Health Nursing

Authors

First Name

Rehab

Last Name

Mahmoud Ibrahim

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

community health nursing, faculty of nursing, Mansoura university, Egypt

Email

rehabhassan601@gmail.com

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First Name

Dalia

Last Name

Abdelkhalik kishk

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

community of health,nursing faculty,mansoura universiyy

Email

dr.dalia4@yahoo.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

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First Name

Samar

Last Name

Abd Elraoof

MiddleName

Elhosieny

Affiliation

community health nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura university

Email

dr.samar444@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

0009-0002-0864-4743

Volume

11

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

50297

Issue Date

2024-07-01

Receive Date

2023-11-22

Publish Date

2024-07-01

Page Start

183

Page End

189

Print ISSN

2735-4121

Online ISSN

2735-413X

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https://mnj.journals.ekb.eg/article_379425.html

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379,425

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Original Article

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1,468

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Publication Title

Mansoura Nursing Journal

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https://mnj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Knowledge of Students with Blindness regarding Hand Hygiene

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Created At

26 Dec 2024