To Get College Students To Wash Hands Requires Proper Tools, Attention-getting Tactics

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 03:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers observed that even during a high-profile norovirus outbreak, students followed recommended hand hygiene procedures just 17 percent of the time. In a self-reported survey after the outbreak had subsided, 83 of 100 students surveyed said they always followed proper hand hygiene but estimated that less than half of their peers did the same.

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