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

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) acquisit...

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Autores principales: Johnstone, Siobhan L., Page, Nicola A., Groome, Michelle J., Madhi, Shabir A., Mutevedzi, Portia, Thomas, Juno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8991282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35399561
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v37i1.339
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author Johnstone, Siobhan L.
Page, Nicola A.
Groome, Michelle J.
Madhi, Shabir A.
Mutevedzi, Portia
Thomas, Juno
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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.
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spelling pubmed-89912822022-04-09 Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey Johnstone, Siobhan L. Page, Nicola A. Groome, Michelle J. Madhi, Shabir A. Mutevedzi, Portia Thomas, Juno S Afr J Infect Dis Brief Report 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. AOSIS 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8991282/ /pubmed/35399561 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v37i1.339 Text en © 2022. The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
title Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
title_full Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
title_fullStr Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
title_full_unstemmed Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
title_short Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey
title_sort identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in soweto: a cross-sectional community survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8991282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35399561
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v37i1.339
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