Title: Towards an Environmental Health Infographic for Private School: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study

Biography:

Portia Zoleta Vitug is Operations Manager at Xavier School Batch 83 Foundation and Associate Professor at St. Paul University.

Abstract

As nurses, health comes holistically and view factors that affect health in different parameters. Environmental health refers to protection against environmental factors that may adversely impact human health. The research aims to develop and test an infographic in environmental health among students in the selected catholic school in the Philippines. The researchers conducted two focus group discussions and analyzed the discussion through thematic analysis to come up with an effective infographic. The final infographic was posted in selected institution as its strategic location for 15 days from October 8 to 24 of 2018 and tested its effectiveness by conducting a posttest to fifty-one participants of the experimental group. The experimental group was then cross matched to the control group according to age, sex, year and program. The posttest knowledge scores were then compared and tested for its significant difference using paired t-test. The result showed a significant difference between the knowledge scores of the experimental and control group having a p value of 0.026. Therefore, rejecting the null hypothesis. The created infographic was tested to be an effective material to improve knowledge.