Handwashing Research
Selected
scientific readings
A compilation of scientific articles on past handwashing studies,
hygiene promotion and behavior change.
Borghi et
al. 2002.
Is hygiene promotion cost-effective? A case study in Burkina
Faso. Tropical Medicine and International Health. Volume
7. (2): 960-969.
Bowen, A. et al.
2007.
A cluster randomized controlled
trial evaluating the effect of a handwashing-promotion program
in Chinese primary school.
The
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 76(6):
1166-1173.
Cairncross S. 2003.
Handwashing with soap – a new way to prevent ARIs? Tropical
Medicine and International Health.
Cairncross S.
2005.
What causes sustainable changes in hygiene behaviour? A
cross-sectional study from Kerala, India. Social Science and
Medicine 61: 2212-2220.
Cousens, S., Mertens, T., Traore.
E., Kanki, B.,
Diallo, I. 1993. "Structured
Observations of hygiene behaviours in Burkina Faso: validity,
variability and utility"
Bulletin of the WHO, 71(1):23-32.
Curtis, V.,
Cairncross, S., and Yonli, R. 2000."Review:
Domestic hygiene and diarrhoea - pinpointing the problem",
Tropical Medicine and International Health, 5(1):22-32.
Curtis, V.,
and Cairncross, S. 2003.
Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. Lancet's
Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Curtis, V et
al. 2003.
Hygiene in the home, relating bugs and behaviour. Social
Science and Medicine 57: 657-672.
Curtis, V. and Sidibe, M. 2007.
Can hygiene be cool and fun? Insights from School children in
Senegal. Field Note. Sanitation and Hygiene series.
Curtis et al.
2009.
Planned, motivated and habitual hygiene behavior: an
eleven country review. Health Education Research.
Ejemot, R. et
al. 2008.
Handwashing for preventing diarrhea (Review). The Cochrane
Library 2008. Issue I.
Feachem, R.G.
1986. "Preventing Diarrhea: what are the policy options?",
Health Policy and Planning:1(2):109-117.
Fewtrell, L.
et al. 2005.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene interventions to
reduce Diarrhea in less developed countries. The Lancet, Vol. 5:
42-52.
Gungoren, B.
et al. 2007.
Effect of hygiene promotion on the risk of reinfection rate of
intestinal parasites in children in rural Uzbekistan. The
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 101: 564-569.
ICDDR. 2008.
Hand washing behavior in rural Bangladesh. Health and
Science Bulletin. Volume 6, number 3, September 2008.
IRC
International Water and Sanitation Centre.
"Actions Speak: The study
of hygiene behaviour in water and sanitation projects".
Lopez-Quintero et al. 2009.
Handwashing among schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia.
American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 99 (1): 94-101.
Luby, S, et al. 2005.
Effect of handwashing on
child health: a randomised control trial. The Lancet. 2005
(366): 225-233.
Porzig-Drummond et al. 2009.
Can the emotion of
disgust be harnessed to promote hand hygiene? Experimental and
field-based tests. Social Science and Medicine. 68 (2009):
1006-1012.
Scott, B. et
al. 2007. Health in our hands but not in our heads: understanding hygiene
motivation in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning. 2007: 1-9.
Stevenson et al. 2009. A scale for measuring hygiene behavior: Development, reliability and validity. American Journal of Infection Control, 1-8.
UNICEF, 2009.
Soap, toilets and taps: How UNICEF supports water, sanitation
and hygiene.
Webb L. et
al. 2006.
A simple index to measure hygiene behaviors. International
Journal of Epidemiology. 2006: 1-9. |