Abstract
The study investigated the personal hygiene practices adopted by members of
households in Igbo-Etiti local Government Area, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Specifically, it determined personal hygiene practices adopted by households
in the area of study, their perceived constraints to their hygiene practices, and
strategies for ameliorating the constraints. Questionnaire was used for data
collection. Population for the study was 209, 248 members of households in the
area of the study. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a random
sample of 210 respondents. Mean and standard deviation were used for data
analysis. Findings show that personal hygiene practices are poorly adopted in
the area of study. The adopted poor personal care hygiene generated problems
such as bad odour, bad breath, staph infection among others. These problems
can be solved or reduced through adequate care of the body like use of anti-
bacteria soap to take both and wash hands, wear clean clothes, lingerie/under
wears among others. Based on the findings, recommendations were made, that
hygiene talk programme should be organized for the members of the
households in the area of study and that public awareness campaign should be
carried out during August and October annual general meetings in the area of
the study.