Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Of Personal Hygiene Among Primary School Pupils In Plateau State, Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of personal hygiene among primary school pupils in Plateau state, Nigeria. The study was also guided by three (3) purposes, three research questions and three (3) hypotheses. The study employed ex-post-facto research design. The population of the study was 828,717 between the ages of 7 to 13 years pupils in Plateau state. A sample size of 400 was randomly selected proportionately through stratified sampling techniques, simple random sampling techniques and proportionate sampling. A closed ended questionnaire was used for the study. Descriptive statistics of frequency count, percentage, mean, standard deviation and one sample t-test were used to test the hypotheses of the study. Findings revealed that knowledge of school pupils towards personal hygiene in Plateau State is significant (t=5.207,p=0.021), because the probability value is less than 0.05 at 5% level of significance, the t-value value is 5.207 greate...