Effectiveness of therapeutic clowning on handwashing habits remains unknown

摘要

Handwashing is an effective and convenient practice to prevent many infectious diseases. Children, especially preschoolers, will benefit the most from proper handwashing as they are vulnerable to infectious diseases. Traditional educations on handwashing may not effectively engage preschool children. Arikan and colleagues proposed an entertaining method, that is, using therapeutic clowning, to teach handwashing technique among preschool children. They evaluated their proposed therapeutic clowning by their subjects' handwashing habit and hand cleanliness.