فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Maintaining and improving the health situation of childrenrequires them to become more aware about personal hygiene through proper education. Based onseveral studies, teachings provided through informal methods are fully understandable for children.Therefore, the goal of this study is to compare the effects of creative drama and storytelling educationmethods on increasing the awareness of children regarding personal hygiene.METHODS: This is an applied study conducted using semiempirical method in two groups. Thestudy population consisted of 85 children participating in 4th center for Institute for the IntellectualDevelopment of Children and Young Adults in Isfahan, 40 of which were randomly selected andplaced in storytelling and creative drama groups with 20 members each. The data gathering toolwas a questionnaire created by the researchers whose content validity was confirmed by healtheducation experts. The gathered information were analyzed using both descriptive (average andstandard deviation) and analytical (independent t‑test and paired t‑test) statistical methods.RESULTS: The findings showed that there was a meaningful difference between the awareness scoreof both groups before and after intervention. The average awareness score of storytelling group wasincreased from 50.69 to 86.83 while the average score of creative drama group was increased from57.37 to 85.09. Furthermore, according to paired t‑test results, there was no significant differencebetween average scores of storytelling and creative drama groups.CONCLUSIONS: The results of the current study showed that although both storytelling and creativedrama methods are effective in increasing the awareness of children regarding personal hygiene,there is no significant difference between the two methods.