A study on personal hygiene attitudes of soldiers in a Military Garrison Bir askeri birlikteki erbaş ve erlerin kişisel hijyen tutumlari üzerine bir araştirma
Ondokuz Mayis Universitesi Tip Dergisi, cilt.18, sa.1, ss.12-18, 2001 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2001
- Dergi Adı: Ondokuz Mayis Universitesi Tip Dergisi
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.12-18
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Attitude, Cleaning, Hygiene, Soldier
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Hygiene, its based over personal and social health, is one of the most important social indicates. This study aimed to investigate soldiers' personal hygiene and hygiene attitudes. This cross sectional study consist of 5120 randomly selected persons from a total of 6035 who were fulfilling their military services at Etimesgut Military Garrison in Ankara, from August, 1 to September, 30 in 1999. Soldiers were given a questionnaire form including questions about hand-washing, tooth-brushing, foot cleaning and whole body hygiene attitudes. The questionnaire form was applied on soldiers by face to face method. Of soldiers in the study 92.2 percent take bath at least once in a week, 93.5 percent clean their feet in a day, 43.5 percent change their socks everyday, 84.5 percent wash their hands with soap and 77.1 percent brush their teeth at least once in a day. According to personal hygiene attitudes, singles to married ones, and city-livings to country ones are more sensitive. There is no association between hygiene attitudes and some demographics parameters such as educational status, parents education and salary. As a result to improve personal hygiene attitudes, social development and making people sensible are important.