Proyecto educativo sobre higiene dirigido a los niños y niñas de la Escuela “Moises Silva” de la Comunidad Tambohuasha. Parroquia San Juan. Cantón Riobamba. Provincia Chimborazo. 2013

Abstract

The present research work was developed at Tambohuasha, San Juan Parish, Riobamba canton, Chimborazo province. It had a party of 35 students of Basic Education from “Moises Silva” school. Through a descriptive study, a survey was applied in order to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of personal hygiene; based on the results, 95% of the children have a regular knowledge and 5% of them have a correct knowledge of this issue. Then, an educational project was designed and applied by means of an active participative method through group works, training, expositions and practices in topics as hand washing, personal hygiene, teeth brushing, food handling, home hygiene, among others; this way, results on each of the different sessions were obtained, increasing the percentage of correct knowledge to 93% and 7% of regular knowledge; reaching so the proposed objective of increasing the levels of knowledge in the study population and this way the children can acquire new habits of personal hygiene, to apply them through these trainings in order to avoid illnesses and enjoy of health for all their family and school community.