Infectious disease risk communication and engagement using puppetry and related approaches for improving handwashing with soap in an informal settlement of Nairobi

Rebecca Richardson; Andrew E. Collins

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103477

Infectious disease risk communication and engagement using puppetry and related approaches for improving handwashing with soap in an informal settlement of Nairobi

Rebecca Richardson, Andrew E. Collins^*

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Geography and Environmental Sciences Department

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Abstract

Handwashing with soap (HWWS) has been estimated to have the potential to prevent 35% of the 704,880 deaths per year caused by diarrhoeal infectious diseases (UN Millennium Project, 2018), its wider risk reduction influence subsequently accentuated in times of COVID-19. However, this depends on place specific risk communication that leads to behaviour change, particularly amongst children in economically poor neighbourhoods. A study centred on five schools in the informal settlement of Kawangware, Nairobi found that puppetry, shadow shows and school model making produced effective risk communication and engagement spaces. Increased HWWS occurred when children designed, owned, and were able to apply risk communication.

Original language	English
Article number	103477
Number of pages	13
Journal	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Volume	84
Early online date	5 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103477
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

Keywords

Communication with children
Handwashing
Infectious disease risk
Risk engagement spaces

UN SDGs

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Infectious disease risk communication and engagement using puppetry and related approaches for improving handwashing with soap in an informal settlement of Nairobi

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