An investigation of women’s hygiene habits and the affecting factors during the Covid-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

This study aims to investigate women’s hygiene habits and the affecting factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was conducted with women aged 21 to 64 between July and September 2021. The sample size was calculated as 384 individuals using the method for an unknown population, and the study included 405 women who agreed to participate. Data were collected through the Descriptive Characteristics Form and the COVID-19 Hygiene Scale. According to the women’s descriptive characteristics Hygiene Scale mean scores were significantly higher in those who were married, who lived in urban areas, who had children aged 0 to 6, who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, who had other individuals infected with COVID-19 at home, and who reportedly had changes in their hygiene habits in the pandemic process. The importance given to hygiene by women was found to increase in the COVID-19 process.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• hygiene
• women

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank all participants for engaging in this study. The authors are grateful to Duygu Ispinar for proofreading the manuscript.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.