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dc.contributor.author | Johnstone, Siobhan L.![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Page, Nicola Anne![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Groome, Michelle J.![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Madhi, Shabir A.![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Mutevedzi, Portia![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Thomas, Juno![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-30T10:47:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-30T10:47:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-03-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Medical Virology | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | dm2022 | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | GlaxoSmithKline and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The CHAMPS programme is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://sajid.co.za/index.php/sajid | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Johnstone, S.L., Page, N.A., Groome, M.J., Madhi, S.A., Mutevedzi, P. & Thomas, J. 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 2022;37(1), a339. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v37i1.339. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2313-1810 (online) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2312-0053 (print) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.4102/sajid.v37i1.339 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88560 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | AOSIS | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2022. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hand hygiene | en_US |
dc.subject | Risk communication | en_US |
dc.subject | Diarrhoeal diseases | en_US |
dc.subject | Community | en_US |
dc.subject | COVID-19 pandemic | en_US |
dc.subject | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) | en_US |
dc.subject | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) | en_US |
dc.title | Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto : a cross-sectional community survey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |