Loss versus gain: integrating technology and message framing in promoting proper hand washing among grade 1 pupils
One of the major functions of nurses is to promote health and wellness of individuals both healthy and ill. Promoting proper hand washing is the most basic infection-control measure a nurse can assume to attain this goal. Individuals become more susceptible to diseases without proper practice a...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2011
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| Summary: | One of the major functions of nurses is to promote
health and wellness of individuals both healthy and
ill. Promoting proper hand washing is the most
basic infection-control measure a nurse can assume
to attain this goal. Individuals become more
susceptible to diseases without proper practice and
sufficient understanding of this skill. It is a
challenge for nurses to encourage the people to be
compliant in making hand washing a necessary part
in the maintenance or improvement of their health.
This is especially true for school-aged children,
who are constantly exposed to the environment and
thus to bacterial and infectious agents, are at a
higher risk. Technology has widened the
dissemination of knowledge. Audio-Visual
Presentations (AVP) has made education and
learning more easily facilitated. Education involves
giving information to improve knowledge about a
certain concept and Message Framing is one
method. The study combined the two strategies in
promoting hand washing.The objective of this study is to determine
which type of message framing through an AVP:
positive (shows benefits and gains) or negative
(shows risks and losses), is more effective in
promoting proper hand washing among Grade 1
pupils. The researchers included 72 grade 1 pupils
from a public elementary school to participate in
the study through convenience and cluster
sampling. The data was gathered through a pre-test
and post-test method. In the analysis, the total
average scores of the posttest of each group,
positive message framing and negative message
framing, was used to determine which type of
message framing through an AVP is more effective
in teaching and promoting proper hand washing.
Further, the paired t-test method was used to
determine if there is a significant increase in the
average scores of all the students from pretest to
posttest to see if there is an improvement in the
knowledge and beliefs of students regarding proper
hand washing. A 17-item Hand Hygiene
Questionnaire served as a pretest and posttest to
gather data.The findings showed that positive message
framing through an AVP is more effective in
promoting proper hand washing among Grade 1
pupils. Positive message framing group showed a higher posttest average and indicates better understanding and improved knowledge about proper hand washing.This result of this study will help nurses as well as teachers and other health care professionals in applying a new strategy in
promoting health and wellness among their clients. |
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