Impact of a teacher-led school handwashing program on children's handwashing with soap at school and home in Bihar, India.

Handwashing with soap is an important preventive health behavior, and yet promoting this behavior has proven challenging. We report the results of a program that trained teachers to deliver a handwashing with soap behavior change program to children in primary schools in Bihar, India. Ten interventi...

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Main Authors: James B Tidwell, Anila Gopalakrishnan, Arathi Unni, Esha Sheth, Aarti Daryanani, Sanjay Singh, Myriam Sidibe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229655