Barriers to the Utilizaton of Latrines and Hygiene Practice among Landless People (A Case Study Based on Sijuwa Vdc of Morang District)
Date
2011
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Faculty of Education
Abstract
The study entitled "Barriers to the Utilization of Latrines and Hygiene Practice among
Landless People" is focused on finding out the barriers and practice related to the use of
latrine and on identifying the knowledge and attitude on the use of latrine. Besides that, it
also tries to find the assess of existing situation on the use of latrine. The study is
descriptive in nature and based on primary data collected from 52 household respondents.
Interview schedule and observation form are used as the tools of the data collection. Data
are analyzed and interpreted manually. Analyzed and calculated data are presented in
tables, figure and charts.
According to the study results, 86.26 percent respondents were less than 60 years, 34.62
percent were Hindu, 17.31 percent were Brahmin and Chhetri, 21.15 percent were
involved in agriculture in this study area. Here, only 11.54 percent respondents response
the advantage of latrine as to live healthy life, 40.38 percent feel the need of public
latrines is to keep the local environmental clean and 13.46 percent of them report the
reason of spreading communicable disease is due to the lack of proper latrine for
defecation. 11.52 percent of the respondent had higher education. 36.54 percent of the
respondents had their own latrine and respondents do not have latrine due to the lack of
proper land and knowledge respondents used river bank, open field and jungle for
defecation where latrine is not available. 10.52 of the respondents use to clean the latrine
daily. Among the people who wash the hand, only 32.69 percent wash their hands with
soap and water. Similarly, only 52.63 percent used their latrine for urination and only
5.23 percent respondents had sufficient water supply inside the latrine in those landless
community.
The overall observation of the study thus indicates that safe modern latrine is necessary in
every house to improve the sanitation status of respondents and to protect them from
different communicable diseases. Governmental and non-governmental sectors should
provide fund and material supports to the landless people for construction of latrines. On
the other hand they should also launch health awareness programs and to raise education
status of landless people which will play vital role to reduce the problem
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Hygiene Practice, Latrines Utilization, Landless People, Barriers