Current knowledge, attitude and behaviour of hand and food hygiene in a developed residential community of Singapore: A cross-sectional survey Trauma care and orthopedic surgery

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pang, Junxiong ^a   Chua, Shao Wei Jonathan Lumen ^a   Hsu, Liyang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Diarrhoea; Food hygiene; Hand hygiene; Knowledge; Noncompliant and complacent behaviour; Practices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOOD; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOOD; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84935036686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1910-3     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Walker CL, Rudan I, Liu L, Nair H, Theodoratou E, Bhutta ZA, et al. Global burden of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea. Lancet. 2013;381(9875):1405-16.
2. Walker CL, Black RE. Diarrhoea morbidity and mortality in older children, adolescents, and adults. Epidemiology and infection. 2010;138(9):1215-26.
3. Organisation WH: Causes of death 2008 summary. World Health Organization 2008: http://www.who.int/entity/gho/mortality-burden-disease/global-burden-disease-DTH6-2008.xls.
4. Organisation WH: World Health Report. make every mother and child count. Geneva: World Health Organisation. 2005;2005:190-1.
5. Scallan E, Majowicz SE, Hall G, Banerjee A, Bowman CL, Daly L, et al. Prevalence of diarrhoea in the community in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United States. International journal of epidemiology. 2005;34(2):454-60.
6. Wheeler JG, Sethi D, Cowden JM, Wall PG, Rodrigues LC, Tompkins DS, et al. Study of infectious intestinal disease in England: rates in the community, presenting to general practice, and reported to national surveillance. The Infectious Intestinal Disease Study Executive Bmj. 1999;318(7190):1046-50.
7. Stenberg A, Macdonald C, Hunter PR. How effective is good domestic kitchen hygiene at reducing diarrhoeal disease in developed countries? A systematic review and reanalysis of the UK IID study BMC public health. 2008;8:71.
8. Adak GK, Long SM, O'Brien SJ. Trends in indigenous foodborne disease and deaths, England and Wales: 1992 to 2000. Gut. 2002;51(6):832-41.
9. Mead PS, Slutsker L, Dietz V, McCaig LF, Bresee JS, Shapiro C, et al. Food-related illness and death in the United States. Emerging infectious diseases. 1999;5(5):607-25.
10. Lewis HC, Ethelberg S, Olsen KE, Nielsen EM, Lisby M, Madsen SB, et al. Outbreaks of Shigella sonnei infections in Denmark and Australia linked to consumption of imported raw baby corn. Epidemiology and infection. 2009;137(3):326-34.
11. Wong CS, Ang LW, James L, Goh KT. Epidemiological characteristics of cholera in Singapore. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2010. 1992-2007;39(7):507-6.
12. Meftahuddin T. Review of the trends and causes of food borne outbreaks in Malaysia from 1988 to 1997. The Medical journal of Malaysia. 2002;57(1):70-9.
13. Fewtrell L, Kaufmann RB, Kay D, Enanoria W, Haller L, Colford Jr JM. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet infectious diseases. 2005;5(1):42-52.
14. Luby SP, Agboatwalla M, Painter J, Altaf A, Billhimer WL, Hoekstra RM. Effect of intensive handwashing promotion on childhood diarrhea in high-risk communities in Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association. 2004;291(21):2547-54.
15. Pittet D, Hugonnet S, Harbarth S, Mourouga P, Sauvan V, Touveneau S, et al. Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. The Lancet. 2000;356(9238):1307-12.
16. Biran A, Schmidt WP, Wright R, Jones T, Seshadri M, Isaac P, et al. The effect of a soap promotion and hygiene education campaign on handwashing behaviour in rural India: a cluster randomised trial. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH. 2009;14(10):1303-14.
17. Curtis V, Cairncross S. Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. The Lancet infectious diseases. 2003;3(5):275-81.
18. Ministry of Health S. Epidemiology and control of food poisoning outbreaks in Singapore, 2009-2011. Epidemiol News Bull. 2012;38(3):62-71.
19. Ministry of Health S: Communicable Disease Surveillance in Singapore 2011. 2011:47-67.
20. Sibiya JE, Gumbo JR. Knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) survey on water, sanitation and hygiene in selected schools in Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2013;10(6):2282-95.
21. Vivas AP, Gelaye B, Aboset N, Kumie A, Berhane Y, Williams MA. Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of hygiene among school children in Angolela, Ethiopia. Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene. 2010;51(2):73-9.
22. Banda K, Sarkar R, Gopal S, Govindarajan J, Harijan BB, Jeyakumar MB, et al. Water handling, sanitation and defecation practices in rural southern India: a knowledge, attitudes and practices study. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2007;101(11):1124-30.
23. Biran A, Schmidt WP, Zeleke L, Emukule H, Khay H, Parker J, et al. Hygiene and sanitation practices amongst residents of three long-term refugee camps in Thailand, Ethiopia and Kenya. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH. 2012;17(9):1133-41.
24. Rabbi SE, Dey NC. Exploring the gap between hand washing knowledge and practices in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional comparative study. BMC public health. 2013;13:89.
25. Reeves LM, Priest PC, Poore MR. School toilets: facilitating hand hygiene? A review of primary school hygiene facilities in a developed country. Journal of public health. 2012;34(4):483-8.
26. Public Housing in Singapore: Residents' Profile, Housing Satisfaction and Preferences (HDB Household survey 2013) [ http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10297p.nsf/ImageView/Survey2013/file/Monograph+1.pdf ]
27. Disease Burden 2010 [ https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh-web/home/statistics/Health-Facts-Singapore/Disease-Burden.html ]
28. Keep your hands clean [ http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/health-article/5652 ]
29. Food hygiene standard in Singapore [ http://www.nea.gov.sg/public-health/food-hygiene ]
30. Oh E, Mohd Hamzah HB, Chain Yan C, Ang E. Enhancing hand hygiene in a polyclinic in Singapore. International journal of evidence-based healthcare. 2012;10(3):204-10.
31. Salmon S, Wang XB, Seetoh T, Lee SY, Fisher DA. A novel approach to improve hand hygiene compliance of student nurses. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control. 2013;2(1):16.
32. Szilagyi L, Haidegger T, Lehotsky A, Nagy M, Csonka EA, Sun X, et al. A large-scale assessment of hand hygiene quality and the effectiveness of the «WHO 6-steps». BMC infectious diseases. 2013;13:249.
33. Ang BC, Chen MI, Goh TL, Ng YY, Fan SW. An assessment of electronically captured data in the patient care enhancement system (PACES) for syndromic surveillance. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. 2005;34(9):539-4.
34. Coker RJ, Hunter BM, Rudge JW, Liverani M, Hanvoravongchai P. Emerging infectious diseases in southeast Asia: regional challenges to control. Lancet. 2011;377(9765):599-609.
35. Wethington H, Bartlett P. Usage and data collection patterns for a novel web-based foodborne-disease surveillance system. Journal of environmental health. 2006;68(7):25-9. 40; quiz 43-24.
36. El Arifeen S, Christou A, Reichenbach L, Osman FA, Azad K, Islam KS, et al. Community-based approaches and partnerships: innovations in health-service delivery in Bangladesh. Lancet. 2013;382(9909):2012-26.
37. People's Association [ http://www.pa.gov.sg/ ]
38. Public Hygiene Council [ http://publichygienecouncil.sg/ ]
39. Guinan M, McGuckin M, Ali Y. The effect of a comprehensive handwashing program on absenteeism in elementary schools. American journal of infection control. 2002;30(4):217-20.
40. Dreibelbis R, Freeman MC, Greene LE, Saboori S, Rheingans R. The impact of school water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on the health of younger siblings of pupils: a cluster-randomized trial in Kenya. American journal of public health. 2014;104(1):e91-7.
41. Freeman MC, Clasen T, Dreibelbis R, Saboori S, Greene LE, Brumback B, et al. The impact of a school-based water supply and treatment, hygiene, and sanitation programme on pupil diarrhoea: a cluster-randomized trial. Epidemiology and infection. 2014;142(2):340-51.
42. Haggerty PA, Muladi K, Kirkwood BR, Ashworth A, Manunebo M. Community-based hygiene education to reduce diarrhoeal disease in rural Zaire: impact of the intervention on diarrhoeal morbidity. International journal of epidemiology. 1994;23(5):1050-9.
43. Latham JR, Magiorakos AP, Monnet DL, Alleaume S, Aspevall O, Blacky A, et al. The role and utilisation of public health evaluations in Europe: a case study of national hand hygiene campaigns. BMC public health. 2014;14:131.
44. Castilla J, Godoy P, Dominguez A, Martin V, Delgado-Rodriguez M, Martinez-Baz I, et al. Risk factors and effectiveness of preventive measures against influenza in the community. Influenza and other respiratory viruses. 2013;7(2):177-83.
45. Ejemot RI, Ehiri JE, Meremikwu MM, Critchley JA. Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 2008;1, CD004265.
46. Jefferson T, Del Mar CB, Dooley L, Ferroni E, Al-Ansary LA, Bawazeer GA, et al. Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 2011;7, CD006207.
47. Fung IC, Cairncross S. Effectiveness of handwashing in preventing SARS: a review. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH. 2006;11(11):1749-58.
48. Teleman MD, Boudville IC, Heng BH, Zhu D, Leo YS. Factors associated with transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome among health-care workers in Singapore. Epidemiology and infection. 2004;132(5):797-803.
49. Yap J, Tan CH, Cook AR, Loh JP, Tambyah PA, Tan BH, et al. Differing clinical characteristics between influenza strains among young healthy adults in the tropics. BMC infectious diseases. 2012;12:12.
50. Yun HC, Fugate WH, Murray CK, Cropper TL, Lott L, McDonald JM. Pandemic influenza virus 2009 H1N1 and adenovirus in a high risk population of young adults: epidemiology, comparison of clinical presentations, and coinfection. PloS one. 2014;9(1), e85094.
51. Punpanich W, Chirapanyanon P, Srisarang S. Clinical characteristics and hospital charges among Thai children hospitalized with influenza. The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health. 2014;45(1):75-84.
52. Nisar N, Aamir UB, Badar N, Mehmood MR, Alam MM, Kazi BM, et al. Prediction of clinical factors associated with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in Pakistan. PloS one. 2014;9(2), e89178.
53. Crepey P, Pivette M, Desvarieux M. Potential impact of influenza A/H1N1 pandemic and hand-gels on acute diarrhea epidemic in France. PloS one. 2013;8(10), e75226.
54. Rahman MM, Kiong TC. Integration policy in Singapore: a transnational inclusion approach. Asian Ethnicity. 2012;14(1):80-98.
55. Constenla D, Linhares A, Rheingans R, Antil L, Waldman E, Da Silva L. Economic impact of a rotavirus vaccine in Brazil. J Health Popul Nutr. 2008;26(4):388-96.
56. Fischer T, Anh D, Antil L, Cat N, Kilgore P, Thiem V, et al. Health care costs of diarrheal disease and estimates of the cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination in Vietnam. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2005;192(10):1720-6.
57. Flem E, Latipov R, Nurmatov Z, Xue Y, Kasymbekova K, Rheingans R. Costs of diarrheal disease and the cost-effectiveness of a rotavirus vaccination program in kyrgyzstan. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2009;200:S195-202.
58. Jacobs P, Shane L, Fassbender K, Wang E, Moineddin R, Ford-Jones E. Economic analysis of rotavirus-associated diarrhea in the metropolitan Toronto and Peel regions of Ontario. Can J Infect Dis. 2002;13:3.
59. Jin H, Wang B, Fang Z, Duan Z, Gao Q, Liu N, et al. Hospital-based study of the economic burden associated with rotavirus diarrhea in eastern China. Vaccine. 2011;29:7801-6.
60. MacIntyre U, Villiers F. The economic burden of diarrheal disease in a tertiary level hospital, gauteng, south Africa. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2010;202(S1):S116-25.
61. Mendelsohn A, Asirvatham J, Mwamburi D, Sowmynarayanan T, Malik V, Muliyil J, et al. Estimates of the economic burden of rotavirus-associated and all-cause diarrhoea in Vellore, India. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH. 2008;13(7):934-42.
62. Rheingans R, Constenla D, Antil L, Innis B, Breuer T. Economic and health burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis for the 2003 birth cohort in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2007;21(4):192-204.
63. Russell S. The economic burden of illness for households in developing countries: a review of studies focusing on malaria, tuberculosis, and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2004;71 Suppl 2:147-55.
64. Wielen M, Giaquinto C, Gothefors L, Huelsse C, Huet F, Littmann M, et al. Impact of community-acquired paediatric rotavirus gastroenteritis on family life: data from the REVEAL study. BMC Fam Pract. 2010;11:22.