RESEARCH PRESENTATION
on
Title : Status of Personal Hygiene Skill among Children with Multiple
Disabilities
Presented by
E.USHA
M.Ed. Spl. Edn. (Multiple
Disabilities)
2nd Year
NIEPMD
Introduction
• According to RPWD Act Dec 2016, Multiple disabilities refer to the persons having more
than one disability. Multiple disabilities could be two different types of physical disabilities,
different mental disabilities or more combination of physical and mental disabilities,
intellectual disabilities with blindness, mental retardation with orthopedic impairment, to
locomotors disabilities with speech impairment. Children with multiple disabilities requires
special education and assistive program considering their need of services.
• Some children with developmental delay may later be identified as children with multiple
disabilities. Children with multiple disabilities have difficulty in day to day living Self-care
activities such as eating, brushing, toileting, bathing, dressing and grooming, wide-ranging.
Multiple Disabilities
• More than one disability is called Multiple Disabilities
Personal Hygiene
• The investigator refers personal hygiene to which it helps in maintaining their
body hygiene and healthy lifestyle in social aspects
Objectives
• To know the level of understanding about Personal Hygiene for Children with
Multiple Disabilities with reference to Age, Gender, Severity of Disability
• To develop a tool on personal hygiene rating scale
• To understand the importance of Personal Hygiene for Children with Multiple
Disabilities
• To train the children with multiple disabilities and parents in personal hygiene skills.
HYPOTHESES
1. There is no difference in the mean scores among children with Multiple disabilities on the status of
personal hygiene skills with respect to Gender, Age
2. There is no difference in the mean scores among children with Multiple disabilities on the status of
personal hygiene skills with respect to Severity condition
Review of Related Literature
• Aniruddh Ranga, JP Majra (2019), conducted a study on Determinants of personal hygiene among school
children: a community based cross-sectional study from Sonipat, northern India, The personal hygiene practices
of school children in Sonipat, a city in the Northern Indian state of Haryana, were assessed in a community-based
cross-sectional study that enrolled 1,462 randomly selected students (Grades 6 to 12) across 50 schools. The study
took place between June 2018 and June 2020. A pre-tested, structured proforma captured personal hygiene
practices during morning health inspections. Chi-squared tests were used to determine statistical significance of
differences; a p-value of 0.05 was considered significant. Adequate personal hygiene was observed for the
following practices: hand (56%), body (75.1%), oro-dental (49.7%), nail (83.7%) and clothes hygiene (80.3%).
Across all categories, an overall poor level of personal hygiene was observed among 780 (53.4%) of participants.
A higher level of good personal hygiene was observed among girls (13.9%) than boys (9.5%) (p-value=<0.001);
among participants from schools with teachers received training in health(14.5%) compared with schools without
such teachers (10.8%) (p-value=<0.023); and in schools where teachers’ knowledge of school health practices was
rated as moderately adequate or above (p-value=<0.006).
Review of Related Literature
AMANY A. MONA S. MERVAT E. (2018), conducted a study on Evaluation of Personal
Hygiene Among Students with Visual Impairment at Al-Nour School for Blind: Ismailia City. The
design used for the study was descriptive study design. Methods: Data were collected by the
investigator using three tools. First: Interviewing questionnaire to assess the students' knowledge
about personal hygiene. Second: Observational checklist to assess student's practice of personal
hygiene. Third tool: A structured interviewing questionnaire for caregivers to assess their
knowledge regarding personal hygiene for their children. The results are 79.1% and 77, 9% of
studied students had unsatisfactory knowledge and practices of personal hygiene, respectively.
71.67% of caregivers had satisfactory knowledge of personal hygiene for their children except the
oral hygiene. It was concluded that the students with visual impairment had unsatisfactory
knowledge and practices regarding personal hygiene, and the caregivers had unsatisfactory
knowledge about oral hygiene for their children.
Methodology
• Sample site:
– Population: Population of the study was selected in Special Education services, NIEPMD,
Chennai
• Sample Size: The sample selected for the study included 20 children with multiple disabilities in the
age 7-11 between years
• Sampling technique: Purposive Sampling Technique was used for the study
• Research Design: Survey study design was used for the study
Data collection procedure
• Make consent form
• Informed consent was taken from parents and their children with multiple disabilities to participate in
the study
• The participation of parents is involuntary
Research Tool
• Part A: Personal Data Sheet
• Part B: Rating Scale
The researcher had developed a Personal Hygiene Rating Scale to find the level of
Personal Hygiene among Children with Multiple Disabilities
Data Analysis
• Enter the data in Excel sheet from the variables
• IBM SPSS software. version 2.0 with the help of descriptive statistics and Inferential
analysis
• Descriptive statistics to find the overall domain averages and basic information of
subjects
• Inferential analysis with mean and standard deviation status of personal hygiene skills
• Based on the analysis researcher made a findings
• Researcher to show the finding results with the help of Graphical tool
RESULTS
• This study explored the status of personal hygiene skills among Children with multiple
disabilities
• It was found that children with multiple disabilities are dependent on parents for majority of their
self care activities
• Parents required training through modeling, task analysis, shaping and chaining etc.,
Summary and Findings
• The findings that children in the multiple disabilities are dependent on parents for
majority of activities
• Inferential Analysis: Help to check the level of children with Multiple Disabilities in
Personal Hygiene skills
• This finding on the status of personal hygiene skills among Children with
multiple disabilities.
• Parents need training through modeling, task analysis, shaping and chaining etc.,
References
• Hidayati, Titiek & Akrom, Akrom & Nurasa, Indri & Erviana.(2019).health education
improve behavior and self-efficacy on personal hygiene among children with intellectual
disability.
• International journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS).8.391.10.11591/ijphs.v8i4.20370.
• https://www.grossarchive.com/project/10822/practices-of-personal-hygiene-knowledge-a
mong-primary-school-children
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304774437_Personal_Hygiene _Habits _among
school-going_children_in Rural areas_of _Jaipur
• NIEPID publications
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