Parents’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about Soil Transmitted Minthiasis for School Children in Shinyanga District Council, Tanzania.

Sizya, Saleh Mrisho (2020) Parents’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about Soil Transmitted Minthiasis for School Children in Shinyanga District Council, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study focused to investigate, knowledge, attitude and practices about soil transmitted minthiasis among Primary school children in Shinyanga Rural district council. A cross-section research design was used to collect data at a single point in time.Purposive sampling technique was employed to select pupil respondents and key informant interview. This study employed 120 parents as entire sample size. The mixed data collection was applied..Data reduction technique was used to analyze data from key informant interview while SPSS was used to analyze data through descriptive statatistic. From the findings indicated that, majority of the respondents reveal that female were aware of STH disease compared to their counterpart males where a chi-square test revealed that there was statistical significant influence of sex on awareness on STH disease at (χ2=27.348) and (p<0.001). Also, a chi-square test show that there was no statistical significant relationship between the age of respondents and awareness on STH disease, at (χ2=5.462) and (p>0.05). Furthermore, the finding reveal that eating without washing hand, contaminated food and walking through bare feet found to be main causative of STH in the study. The study concluded that women parents are still overwhelmed with responsibilities of taking care of hearth of children in their household while male parents enjoy life. The study recommends that both parents should ensure acceptable health environments at their home so that reduce and eventually alleviate STH in their surroundings. Government and other stakeholders should also ensure regular health education in local community especially in rural areas.

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