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Only one in three adolescents practise appropriate hand hygiene: study
24th of June 2021Adolescents have suboptimal hand hygiene habits: this was the conclusion reached in a global study of teens.
The Student Health Survey examined the hand hygiene practices of 354,422 adolescents aged 13-17 years in 92 countries. And according to the results, only 30.3 per cent of teenagers claim to practise appropriate hand hygiene.
The results