THE ROLE OF HYGIENE KNOWLEDGE ON HEALTH RELATED PRACTICE: A STUDY ON ADOLESCENT BOYS STUDYING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL OF BANGLADESH

Good personal hygiene is the first step to healthy living. School students can play an effective role in motivating their parents, relatives and neighbors towards hygiene practices. This study tried to measure adolescence boy’s level of knowledge about the hygienic behavior and examined the relationship between their knowledge and practices towards the various hygienic behaviors. Therefore, descriptive research had use where data were collected and analyzed by both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study showed that students have an average level of hygienic knowledge and they learnt miscellaneous hygienic oriented knowledge through the various sources like text book, television, family members, face book and others such as friends etc. It is very interesting that student share as well as gather their knowledge from their family is rarely. There was a positive correlation between the hygienic knowledge and practices.