Awareness of Homeless Youth regarding Personal Hygiene in Fayoum Governorate | ||
| Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 37, Issue 2, May 2025 PDF (812.55 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2025.436967 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Esraa Salah Eldeen Galal Ali1; Sahar Mahmoud Sayed Ahmed2; Mervat Amin Sayed3 | ||
| 1A ssistant lecturer of community Health Nursing - Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt. | ||
| 2Assisst.Professor of Community Health Nursing , Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University, Egypt. | ||
| 3Assisst.Professor of community Health Nursing - Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Homeless youth suffer from a strangely great number of stressful life informative research strategy was used to achieve the goal of this study. Setting: events in their lives, greatly during their conversion to homelessness. The homeless youth have enormous health inequities causing a higher incidence of several medical health diseases and risks. The aim of this study: Awareness of homeless youth regarding personal hygiene in Fayoum Governorate. Study Design: A cross-sectional The study was performed at a social care shelter in fayoum governorate. Subjects: A Convenience sample consisted of 60 homeless youth. Tool: Organized Interviewing Questionnaire: Advanced by the researcher after revising the relevant research works Survey to collect the data and consists of 4th part, Part I: Demographic characteristics of street youth, part II: Homeless youth knowledge regarding personal and menstrual hygiene, part III: Homeless youth attitude regarding personal hygiene. Part IV: Homeless youth self-reported practice regarding personal and menstrual hygiene. Results: Revealed that, 50% aged between 12 and 15 years. 76.9% of female participants had poor knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene. 66.7% of participants had a negative attitude. 80.0% of participants reported unsatisfactory practices. Conclusion: The present study proved that, there were statistically important positive correlations between the overall knowledge, overall attitude and whole reported practice scores toward personal hygiene. Recommendation: Applying health education programs regarding personal hygiene among homeless youth in Fayoum Governorate. | ||
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