September 17, 2009
Students Tend to Ignore Hygiene Tips, Study Finds
Robert Hubner, Washington State U
A poster put out by federal health officials hangs in a common area at Washington State U.
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Robert Hubner, Washington State U
A poster put out by federal health officials hangs in a common area at Washington State U.
Posting signs and scattering bottles of hand sanitizer are not enough to make students practice good hygiene, even in the midst of a swine-flu pandemic, according to a study by researchers at North Carolina State University and Kansas State University.
College health officials who want students to change their habits must be creative, communicate through social-networking sites, and lose the scientific jargon and polite euphemisms, says Benjamin J. Chapman, an assistant professor of
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