Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior

Advocates of promoting handwashing with soap agree that this behavior has important health benefits across the globe. Efforts, both large-scale and focused, are underway worldwide to promote handwashing with soap at the community level (www.globalhandwashing.org). Although there is broad agreement about the health benefits of promoting handwashing with soap, there is not similar agreement about the best ways to measure the behavior that these promotion programs set out to change. The reality is this: there is no universally applicable method for measuring handwashing behavior that is valid, relevant, affordable, and logistically feasible for the various settings in which such behavior might need to be measured. The aim of this document is to describe techniques and to propose strategies for measuring handwashing behavior for a variety of scenarios.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ram, Pavani
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2010-03
Subjects:	ADOLESCENTS, AGED, BARS, BEHAVIOR CHANGE, BREASTFEEDING, CLEANLINESS, COMMUNITY HEALTH, COOKING, DATA ANALYSIS, DATA COLLECTION, DIARRHEA, DISEASE RISK, DISEASE TRANSMISSION, EPIDEMIOLOGY, FAECAL CONTAMINATION, FATIGUE, FOOD PREPARATION, HAND WASHING, HANDS AFTER DEFECATION, HANDWASHING, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR, HYGIENE EDUCATION, HYGIENE PRACTICES, HYGIENE PROMOTION, HYGIENE PROMOTION PROGRAMS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, INFORMED CONSENT, INTERVENTION, LABORATORIES, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, NUTRITION, PEDIATRICS, PERSONAL HYGIENE, PUBLIC HEALTH, QUALITY CONTROL, QUESTIONNAIRES, R&D, RELIABILITY, RESEARCHERS, SANITATION, SANITATION ACTIVITIES, SANITATION SERVICES, SCENARIOS, SOAP, TECHNIQUES, VALIDITY, VARIABILITY, WASH HANDS WITH SOAP, WASHING HANDS, WATER SUPPLY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/03/12850056/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-practical-guidance-measuring-handwashing-behavior https://hdl.handle.net/10986/19005
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