A comparative study to assess the knowledge on selected aspects of environmental sanitation among school going children in the selected rural & urban school

A descriptive study was undertaken to assess and compare the knowledge on selected aspects of environmental sanitation among rural and urban school going children. The study also aimed in finding association between rural and urban school going children's knowledge and selected aspect of environmental sanitation. The conceptual framework was based on Modified J W Kenney's model (source J W. Kenny system model, WHO SEARO technical publication 1985). Descriptive research design and comparative survey approach was adopted for the study. The validity of the developed tools was established through seven experts. Reliability was established by split half formula followed by Spearman Brown Prophesy formula, were r = 0.86. Pilot study was conducted at Basudevpur High school and Rasapunja High School, South 24 Parganas and the study was found to be feasible. The main study was conducted at BarishaPurbapara High School and Samali Bholanath High School. The population selected for the study comprised of school going children of V and VI standard. Sixty samples were selected from each school by Simple Random Sampling using Random table method. The mean knowledge scores of the Rural and Urban school going children were 17.75 and 17.55 respectively. The findings showed that there were no significant difference between knowledge score of rural and urban school going children on selected aspect of environmental sanitation and no association were existing between knowledge level and selected demographic variables-age, gender, standard of education and exposure to health related information. The study has its implications in the field of Nursing Practice, Nursing Administration, Nursing Education and Nursing Research.