Effect of Two Complementary Mass-Scale Media Interventions on Handwashing with Soap among Mothers

Promoting Handwashing Behavior in Peru The Effect of Large-Scale Mass-Media and Community Level Interventions

the effect of explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension among iranian high school students

the present study seeks to determine the effect of explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies on iranian high school students’ reading comprehension ability. it also attempts to investigate the relationship between the learners reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies. furthermore, the study investigates whether iranian efl female high school students are high, medium, or low me...

The Effect of Handwashing with Water or Soap on Bacterial Contamination of Hands

Handwashing is thought to be effective for the prevention of transmission of diarrhoea pathogens. However it is not conclusive that handwashing with soap is more effective at reducing contamination with bacteria associated with diarrhoea than using water only. In this study 20 volunteers contaminated their hands deliberately by touching door handles and railings in public spaces. They were then...

Handwashing with soap and national handwashing projects in Korea: focus on the National Handwashing Survey, 2006-2014.

OBJECTIVES Handwashing is the most fundamental way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Correct handwashing can prevent 50 to 70% of water-infections and foodborne-infections. We report the results of a fact-finding study on general handwashing attitude and practice in the Republic of Korea by analyzing habits and awareness among adults and students (grades 4 to 12) based on the 2006 t...

the effect of lexically based language teaching (lblt) on vocabulary learning among iranian pre-university students

هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی تاثیر روش تدریس واژگانی (واژه-محور) بر یادگیری لغات در بین دانش آموزان دوره پیش دانشگاهی است. بدین منظور دو گروه از دانش آموزان دوره پیش دانشگاهی (شصت نفر) که در سال تحصیلی 1389 در شهرستان نور آباد استان لرستان مشغول به تحصیل بودند انتخاب شده و به صورت قراردادی گروه آزمایش و گواه در نظر گرفته شدند. در ابتدا به منظور اطمینان یافتن از میزان همگن بودن دو گروه از دانش واژگان، آ...