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GARNET - Global Applied Research Network - Hygiene Behaviour Network Newsletter Issue no. 2: June 1995We wish you success in your work, and look forward to receiving yournews, comments, and suggestions concerning the format, style andcontent of this newsletter. Thank you.Astier Almedom and Caroline SmartEditorsNetwork NewsEva Kaltenthaler, a microbiologist who completed her doctoral researchwork last year has joined our network. Eva sent us the followingcontribution.Studying hygiene behaviourMethods used to study hygiene behaviour can be applied to a variety ofsettings. The following two studies were very different yet were bothsuccessful in identifying hygiene problems specific to those settings. Thefirst was a study of hygiene behaviour and its relationship to childhooddiarrhoea in northern Botswana and the second involved investigatinghygiene behaviour in primary schools in Leeds, England.In Botswana, as in many developing countries diarrhoea continues to be amajor cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. In order to investigatethe relationship between hygiene behaviour and diarrhoea a variety ofmethods were used, both quantitative and qualitative. In order to gaininformation concerning what mothers felt were the causes, treatment andprevention of diarrhoea, focus groups, key informant interviews and indepthinterviews were used. Observations were conducted in order todetermine what hygiene behaviours were actually occurring in the home.Ideas about handwashing were felt to be important and to explore this indepth interviews and focus groups were used. These simple methodswere effective in gathering a large amount of information concerningtraditional beliefs and practises relating to diarrhoea and hygienebehaviour. Such information should form an integral part of successfulhealth education programmes.In Leeds, many outbreaks of gastrointestinal infections have beenassociated with primary schools. In this study again a variety ofquantitative and qualitative techniques were used to gain information onhygiene behaviour. The knowledge of young primary school childrenregarding hygiene was assessed by using a questionnaire. In-depthhttp://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cv/wedc/garnet/hybnews.html (2 of 20) [1/13/2005 12:50:12 PM]