Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases

 
 
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Title Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
 
Creator Johnstone, Siobhan L. Page, Nicola A. Groome, Michelle J. Madhi, Shabir A. Mutevedzi, Portia Thomas, Juno
 
Subject Health communication; outbreak response; hand hygiene hand hygiene; risk communication; COVID-19; diarrhoeal diseases; community
Description Effective risk communication is essential for outbreak mitigation, as recently highlighted during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Hand hygiene is one of the proposed public health interventions to protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) acquisition and transmission along with social distancing, improved ventilation, environmental cleaning, and wearing of masks. Improving hand hygiene practices in the community requires an understanding of the socio-behavioural context. This cross-sectional community survey in Soweto identified gaps in hand hygiene, which can inform appropriate messaging at the community level. Only 42% of survey respondents practiced adequate hand hygiene. Tailored educational messaging should be targeted at young adults in particular, and the importance of soap for hand hygiene must be emphasised for all age groups. Risk communication should expand to focus on preventing multiple infectious diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
Contributor GlaxoSmithKline [E-Track 200238] German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [grant number 81203616] Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant OPP1126780)
Date 2022-03-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Community survey; cross-sectional
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajid.v37i1.339
 
Source Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases; Vol 37, No 1 (2022); 4 pages 2313-1810 2312-0053
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa; Soweto — All ages; urban; community-setting
Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Siobhan Lindsay Johnstone, Nicola A Page, Michelle J Groome, Shabir A Madhi, Portia Mutevedzi, Juno Thomas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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