Dr. CHHAYA BADIGERTAGE MINA2018-08-032018-08-032015-06http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810063205Hygiene is one of the significant hallmarks of a civilized society. Hygiene is the fundamental requirement for a healthy, respectable, productive and purposeful life. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ is an age old lesson. Hence, the comparative study was conducted in the purposively selected two villages of Navalur and Narendra of Dharwad district of northern Karnataka and two villages of Tajang and Hija of Ziro, Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. Purposive sampling method was used to select 160 rural adolescent girls of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard to know the knowledge level of health and hygiene practices before and after the intervention. Knowledge booklet, three Posters was developed as visual aids. Questionnaire was developed for pre and post test. The data were collected and analysed. Education intervention is a planned set of procedures which aims at teaching or improving social skills. “Before and after” type of experiment was done. The result shows that after the education intervention 93.75 per cent of adolescent girls gain the knowledge of drinking 8 glasses of water per day in both the regions. Avoiding junk food and maintain of food pyramid are observed quite high in post test. In both the region knowledge about smooth and silky hair, hair fall, dandruff, lice has increased. Face, nose, ears and mouth hygiene were improved after the booklet with lecture in both the regions. In the kitchen covering from flies was adopted. In case of surrounding hygiene toilet and bathroom were maintained clean. For avoiding mosquito breeding, flies and any other insects in the drainage pit DDT, phenyl were used in Dharwad (75.00%) and Ziro (87.50%). Age and education is positively significant with the health and hygiene practices. Calculated Z- values were significant at 0.01 per cent level with all variables, except body and menstruation hygiene.ennullThesis