Effect of nurse education on hygiene habits in preschool age

The aim of graduation thesis are issues of hygienic habits of preschool children. In the theoretical part of thesis, there are dealt with specifics of preschool's age. The ensemble of hygienic habits were created including instructions when to use them , which aids to use and especially the way how to deal with them is described there. In this part, the most important deceases caused by low hygienic standard is discussed. The prevention of those issues is the main goal of this part. In the empiric part of the thesis, there was the aim to find out, which mistakes are made by children of preschool age in the hygienic habits. For this purpose, a collection of deliberately chosen 16 children were approached. The qualitative research was chosen for getting the data needed. 9 specific picture worksheets were created , each one concerned one issue of hygienic habits. Research took place in 9 days period of time. The result of the survey was finding out the mistakes made by children approximately in one half of issues. In each job, one half of respondents made a mistake. The second goal was to create an educational training aimed to correct performing of hygienic habits. Within this scope there was fulfilled another goal - creating of collection of educational fairy tails stories collection focused on separate hygienic area. This collection was used in practical part of training. It is connected closely with the third aim of the thesis- to carry out the mentioned training. The children completed one lesson of educational training every day in the morning, the lesson corresponded with an appropriate worksheet. Each lesson contained theoretical and practical part of training. The next goal of the thesis was finding out which changes were achieved in the branch of hygienic habits by children of preschool age. This survey took place every day in the afternoon. It was ascertained that less than a half of respondent made some mistakes and less than a half of the group made some mistakes. Results were measured and compared. In awareness of children in hygienic habits were seen positive changes. The next goal of the thesis was presentation of the survey to the parents of the children who have a child at this age at home and to find out if they were interested in carrying out of the similar training with their children. A collection of 120 deliberately chosen parents was approached ( except of the parents whose children participated in the training before). The quantitative methodology was used in a short questionnaire. In the questionnaire, there were used following questions: age category, education, amount of children in the family, their interest in completing of the training with their children. The results of the training before and after education were shown to the responding parents. They were shown the educational worksheets and fairy tails stories to get better overview about the training methods used. They Could have a look at the educational dolls, which were connected with the practical training. The survey showed that 93 respondents (81%) would be interested in performing of such a training with their children. They stressed the importance of including such education into the preschool training. In the contrary, 27 parents (19%) were not interested and the most mentioned reason was the attention to train the habits on their own in the family environment