期刊名称：International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach & Studies
电子版ISSN：2348-537X
出版年度：2015
期号：3410
页码：65-72
出版社：IJMAS
摘要：In developing countries like India adolescents constitutes about one fifth of the population. Almost estimated 1.2 billion young people aged between 10-19 years found in the world. Therefore it can be considered one huge segment of the total population. This segment includes lack of awareness and knowledge about personal hygiene and health problems related to adolescents .Objectives of the study were to ascertain the level of knowledge of respondents about personal hygiene, to identify the practices of personal hygiene among adolescents of rural & urban, to identify the gap between knowledge & practices of personal hygiene and to suggest a suitable educational strategy for minimizing the gap existing between knowledge and practice of personal hygiene.
