{"id":2758,"date":"2014-08-13T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2014-08-13T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:19:01","slug":"hand-sanitizers-in-classrooms-do-not-reduce-school-absences-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/hand-sanitizers-in-classrooms-do-not-reduce-school-absences-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand sanitizers in classrooms do not reduce school absences in children<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alcohol-based hand sanitizer dispensers in classrooms do not lead to reductions in the rate of school absences in children, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The researchers conducted a randomized trial on 68 city primary schools (2443 children aged between 5-11 years old) in New Zealand. They found that the rate of absence was similar in the control and intervention schools. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors don\u2019t deny the usefulness of hand sanitizer for hygiene, they conclude that putting resources into hygiene by providing hand sanitizers in classrooms may not be effective in reducing absences due to illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosmedicine.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001700?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosmedicine%2FNewArticles+(PLOS+Medicine+-+New+Articles)\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the journal\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 13, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.mun.ca\/Medicine\/Faculty\/Audas,-Rick.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Audas<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Memorial University,\u00a0Newfoundland<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patricia Priest, University of Otago, New Zealand<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol-based hand sanitizer dispensers in classrooms do not lead to reductions in the rate of school absences in children, a new study shows. The researchers conducted a randomized trial on 68 city primary schools (2443 children aged between 5-11 years old) in New Zealand. They found that the rate of absence was similar in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2112,2113,282,51,476],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-disease-control","tag-disease-prevention","tag-education","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}