Exploring hand washing behavior among the students of Canadian Maple International School: Understanding knowledge attitude and practices.
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Abstract
Introduction: Hand washing is the act of cleaning one’s hand with any liquid or with soap for the purpose of removing microorganism. Hand washing is a learned behavior, so it is required to learn proper hand washing as a child to lay down the fundamentals of lifelong responsibility of maintaining personal hygiene in childhood. Lack of knowledge and practice of proper hygiene increases the incidence of communicable diseases especially among school children in developing countries. Aim:This study is done to identify gaps in knowledge, poor attitudes and substandard practices in hand washing and to enhance the development of appropriate strategies to promote hand hygiene for primary and secondary school students in the future. Hand washing is key to reducing the occurrence of infectious diseases among school students . Materials and Method: The survey was cross-sectional which was conducted among the children of Canadian Maple International School during the period of August to October 2022 to assess the level of knowledge about hand washing among the school students. Sampling was done by purposive method and data was collected through face-to-face interview by using semi-structured questionnaire. After completion of data collection, statistical analysis was done using the Statistical Package for the Social Science. Study was conducted among 51 students of (8-14) years old. Result: Among 51 respondents, 49.02% were within 8-10 years of age, 35.29% were within (10-12) years of age and the rest 15.69% belonged to (12-14) age group. All of them were Muslims. About 49.01% respondents have more than 4 family members. 98% of the respondents had the habit of daily hand washing. 74.50% were aware of hands washing after handling money. 84.30% respondents washed their hands with soap water. In the midst of 51 respondent there is a significant difference in the habit of hand washing at 5% level of significance. The study reveals that more than 80% students have the knowledge about hand washing. Conclusion: Although the results of this study indicated that respondents had high levels of knowledge, attitude and practices of hand hygiene, the information provided in this study regarding current hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices among students will help identify the gaps in knowledge, poor attitudes and substandard practices. This will also be valuable to the design and implementation of the hand hygiene intervention. Hand hygiene is essential to the health of the school community. This study assessed the levels of knowledge, attitude and practices of hand hygiene among Canadian Maple International School, Dhaka. J Med Coll Women Hosp.2025; 21 (2):136-143
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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