Squina International Centre for Infection Control, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Special Issue Article
The Development of Age-Appropriate Creative Activities for Teaching Hand Hygiene for Kindergarten Children
Author(s): Janet Pui Lee Cheung
Proper hand hygiene (HH) practice can effectively reduce the transmission of many infectious conditions among children in childcare settings. However, poor HH compliance is evident in young children, Therefore a 4-week educational programme that consider the cognitive developmental stage of children on increasing their knowledge and promoting hand hygiene practices was developed. Creative activities were planned for the illustration of hand hygiene concepts in terms of “right moments”, “right steps”, and “right duration”. These activities include, but not limited to, the use of an animated video illustrating the relationship between germs and diseases; a wooden hand model painted with seven rainbow colors corresponding to different hand regions; fluorescent gel to simulate “germs” which can be easily spread by person-to-person cont.. View More»
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