Study title

Hygiene behaviour and knowledge of infection protection. Vaccination behaviour and knowledge about vaccination. Topics: 1. Hygiene behaviour and knowledge on infection control: self-assessment of health status; attention to one´s own health; opinion on promoting allergies through frequent hand washing; personal hygiene behaviour: Frequency of hand washing per day; duration of hand washing; use of soap or liquid soap for washing hands; preferred method of drying hands in public toilets (air, airblade, paper towels, cloth towels, etc.); washing hands with warm or cold water; frequency of hand washing in various situations (before eating, after touching animals, after shaking hands, before preparing food, when returning home, after using the toilet, after cleaning the nose or coughing in the hand, after contact with influenza sufferers or people with gastrointestinal diseases, before visiting people with impaired health); regular use of disinfectants for hand disinfection or use only in certain situations or never; reasons or situations for the use of such hand disinfectants; knowledge of the information sticker on the correct procedure for washing hands; visit the website www.infektionsschutz.de; educational films on the page infection protection. de seen; knowledge of the poster on hand hygiene ´Wo waren Deine Hände heute?´; awareness of the BZgA fact sheets ´Erregersteckbriefe´ on the Internet on infectious diseases; own behaviour when sneezing or coughing (in the hand held in front of you, in the crook of the elbow or the sleeve, in a handkerchief, minimum distance from others); assessment of coughing or sneezing in a handkerchief or into the crook of the elbow or the sleeve as effective protection against infection; frequency of use of a paper handkerchief before throwing it away; assessment of the risk of infection by touching it with one´s hands; knowledge of infectious diseases that can be transmitted via the hands; assessment of the effectiveness of...