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Sustaining a hygiene education intervention to prevent and control geohelminth infections at schools in the Peruvian Amazon

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Date
2015
Author
Thériault, François L.
Blouin, Brittany
Casapía, Martín
Gyorkos, Theresa W.
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The World Health Organization currently recommends that school-based deworming programs include health hygiene education as a complementary measure. However, the sustainability and long-term impact of such hygiene education had yet to be assessed. In July 2012, this cross-sectional study was conducted in 18 primary schools in the Peruvian Amazon to gauge continuing adherence to a health hygiene education intervention introduced 2 years earlier to reduce soil-transmitted helminth infections. Due in large part to high teacher turn-over, only 9 of 47 (19.1%) teachers were still implementing the intervention. Health hygiene education interventions must, therefore, be designed to ensure sustainability in order to contribute to the overall effectiveness of school-based deworming programs.
 
Actualmente, la Organización Mundial de la Salud recomienda que los programas antihelmínticos en las escuelas incluyan como medida complementaria la educación sobre prácticas de higiene de salud. Sin embargo, aún no se habían evaluado la sostenibilidad y la repercusión a largo plazo de ese tipo de educación. En julio del 2012, se realizó este estudio transversal en 18 escuelas primarias de la Amazonia peruana para medir el mantenimiento de la adherencia a una intervención de educación sobre prácticas de higiene de salud, encaminada a reducir las helmintiasis transmitidas por el suelo que se habían introducido en las aulas durante los dos años anteriores. En gran parte como consecuencia de las elevadas tasas de recambio de profesorado, solo 9 de 47 profesores (19,1%) seguían llevando a cabo la intervención. Por consiguiente, las intervenciones de educación sobre prácticas de higiene de salud Deben diseñarse de manera que garanticen una mayor sostenibilidad y contribuyan a la eficacia general de los programas de eliminación de parásitos en las escuelas.
 
Translated title
Mantenimiento de una intervención de educación sobre prácticas de higiene para prevenir y controlar las geohelmintiasis en las escuelas de la Amazonia peruana
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Rev Panam Salud Publica;38(4),oct. 2015
Subject
Helminthiasis; Health Education; Child Health; Peru; Helmintiasis; Educación en Salud; Salud del Niño; Peru
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https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/18385
https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/18385
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Thériault FL, Blouin B, Casapía M, Gyorkos TW. Sustaining a hygiene education intervention to prevent and control geohelminth infections at schools in the Peruvian Amazon. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2015;38(4):344–6.
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