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COMMUNITY BASED MEDICAL COLLEGE

BANGLADESH
A Survey Report on School Environment and
Personal Hygiene Practices among Primary School
Children in a Rural Area of Mymensingh

Under Supervision of the Department of Community

Medicine

Name:
Class Roll:
Examination Roll:
Registration Number:
Session:

COMMUNITY BASED MEDICAL COLLEGE

BANGLADESH
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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE

A Survey Report on School Environment and

Personal Hygiene Practices among Primary
School Children in a Rural Area of Mymensingh

Prepared by Students of
CB-26, Group D

Name of the Students:

Name CB Class Roll
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Mir Mohammad Anzar 26 98
Ahmad Usman Gowhar Mir 26 99
Bhat Faizan Bashir 26 100
Syed Tabinda Manzoor 26 101
Musa Bashir Bhat 26 102
Peerzada Mubashir Ahmad 26 103
Hameem Nissar 26 104
Mohd Mehmood Qureshi 26 105
Preethi P 26 107
S. Nivethitha 26 108
Amarapriya K.J 26 109
Nithesh Sriram M 26 110
Nivasini P.K 112
Pranav Mu 26 113
Ahamed Aslam S.A. 26 114
Vandhana S B 26 115
Thavaniha Shri V 26 116
Mudadla Sandhya Rani 26 117
Sowmyatha Mukhi 26 118

Deivakeerthiprasath D 26 119
Uzair Ahmed Qureshi 26 120
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Munazeh Ayoub 26 121
Md. Arkan Ali 26 122
Ayushman Kar 26 123
Midhat Showkat 26 125
Rochak Katwal 26 126
Monika Budha 26 127
Saurabh Gupta 26 128
Ayesha Idrees 26 129
Faria Sharmina Prity 26 130
Sabbir Hossain Rafi 26 61
Kifayat Nabi 26 124
Mohsina Akter Tauhida 20 8
Sifat Bin Monsur Arnab 20 20
Md Labib Jahan 25 45

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 CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that…………………………………..Student
of 3rd year MBBS Roll No.: ………………………….bearing
examination Roll No. CBMCB…………....Registration No.:
…………………Session 2019-20, Community Based Medical
College completed this survey titled “School Environment and
Personal Hygiene Practices among Primary School Children in a
Rural Area of Mymensingh”.

His/ Her participation and work in the field and preparing the
report was good/satisfactory/excellent.

We wish his/her every success in life.

Professor. Dr. Md. Asaduzzaman

Head of the Department

Department of Community Medicine
Community Based Medical College Bangladesh Mymensingh

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 Content
Subject: Page
Acknowledgement vii
Abstract viii
Chapter- 1
Introduction 2
Background 3
Objectives of the study 4
Variables of the study 5
Operational definition 6
Limitations of the study 7
Chapter- 2
Literature review 9
Chapter- 3
Methodology 12
Chapter- 4
Result in Tables and Figures 14
Result in Text 19
Chapter- 5
Discussion 22
Conclusion 25
Recommendations 26
Chapter 6
References 28
Chapter- 7
Appendix: Sample questionnaire 30
Study Tour 34

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

At the commencement, we express our heartfelt gratitude to Professor.

Dr. Md. Asaduzzaman, MPH - CM (BSMMU), Head of the
Department of Community Medicine, Community Based Medical
College, Bangladesh, who helped us a lot in completion of the survey by
his valuable suggestion, inspiration, active cooperation and proper
guidance that helped us to finish the assignment and to bring about a
successful ending of our assignment.

We extend our gratitude to College Administration and Transport

Department to provide us logistics and transport for the assignment.

We extend our thanks to Dr. Fakir Sameul Alam, MBBS (Dhaka), MPH
(DU), Associate Professor of Community Medicine, Community Based
Medical College Bangladesh and other teachers of Community Medicine
department for giving their valuable time, active cooperation and valuable
guidance.

We are also grateful to all the respondents who served as the source of
information for our research.

Finally we acknowledge all hard work of our colleagues for joining us in

successful completion of the research

Thanking all

3rd year MBBS students

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 ABSTRACT

Objective: To assess school environment and personal hygiene practices

among primary school children in a rural area of Mymensingh

Background: Poor school environment and personal hygiene practices

play major roles in increased burden of communicable diseases among
school children leading to sickness absenteeism and poor performance in
school.

Materials and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study, the sampling

technique was purposive. 20 components of school environment of
Ramganj Govt. Primary School was observed and noted by 3 rd year
Medical student of CBMCB. A total of 132 primary school children were
observed and interviewed by predesigned questionnaire by Medical
Students during August 2022. Participants were students of the Primary
School located in Churkhai, Bhavokhali, Mymensingh. Data analysis was
done by SPSS program version 20.

Results: Healthy school environment defined in this study had 20

components. Among 20 components 15 components were conducive to
health and 5 components were not conducive i.e. positive 75% versus
negative 25%. The overall impression was that the school environment
was good. Sample size was 132. Majority of students belonged to class V
(34.09%). The age distribution of respondents ranged from 7 yrs to 13
yrs. Mean age 9.95 yrs, standard deviation 1.671 yrs. Females were
marginally predominant. Male : Female ratio 97: 100. Majority of
students had literate fathers (65.91%) and literate mothers (53.03%).
Observation by medical student about personal hygiene of school student
were noted to be excellent (within range of 80 – 100 %) in cleanliness of
class uniform, scalp hair, hair combing and cleanliness of teeth and were

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good (within range of 60 – 79 %) in wearing shoes and keeping hand and
fingers clean. Personal hygiene practices of school students as revealed
by direct interview were excellent (within range of 80 – 100 %) in daily
bathing, brushing teeth daily, washing hands before taking meal, after
coming from toilet, after playing and good (within range of 60 – 79 %) in
wearing sportswear when playing and wearing shoes or sandals when
going to field and were bad in brushing teeth twice daily (27.27% only).

Discussion: The results are better than the findings of studies conducted
in our country and neighboring countries.

Conclusion: More surveys are needed on large scale.

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