THE FREQUENCY OF USING COMFORT ROOMS AND THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS IN

CLEANLINESS POLICY AMONG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF LAS

SUMMARY OF THE STUDY

Background of The Study

Health, Hygiene, and Well-being of Students Cleanliness in school comfort rooms plays a very important
role for the health, hygiene, and overall well-being of students. This study focuses on examining the cleanliness
of the comfort rooms at Las Piñas City National Senior High School Doña Josefa Campus with a particular
emphasis given to its impact on senior high school students. Clean toilets are not only a basic hygiene but also a
matter of comfort for the students that affects their orientation and productivity in class. Restroom facilities in
schools are often less than hygienic due to an inadequate supply of water, poor maintenance, piling of garbage,
vandalism, among others. Such problems have thus been known to have far-reaching impacts on the health and
well-being of the student.

Statement of the problem

This research mainly seeks to analyze the sanitary conditions of school toilets and how this does directly
impact the students, especially in their health and hygiene behaviors. More specifically, the study aims at finding
out how often the senior high school students visit the toilets, whether they know the hygiene policies, and what
their perceptions are of the toilet facilities. It shall identify necessary improvements on both the students' behavior
and the school's policies that will lead to a cleaner, healthier environment.

To frame the research, three questions are posed as guidelines:

1. How frequently do senior high school students use the comfort rooms?
2. What is the level of student awareness regarding restroom hygiene and its health implications?
3. What is the general perception of students regarding the quality of restroom facilities?

This is to be based on the fact that the incidence of visits to restrooms and the understanding of hygiene
policies by students do not go along with each other. Instead, it is assumed that the restroom-use occasions by
students may not necessarily connect with their awareness of rules regarding cleanness. The hypothesis behind
this is that they will either not know what the policies are or simply fail to observe what the policies mean even
though they do understand.

This study investigates these issues in a bid to expose gaps in student behavior and knowledge that can be
addressed to improve restroom hygiene and quality of facilities. Improving the understanding of hygiene practices
by the students and maintaining restrooms properly will contribute to a healthier school environment, including
feelings of comfort and well-being among students such that they are capable of focusing on their studies while
being free from worries of health. The results of this study aim to help improve standards for school hygiene and
better adherence to policy within the schools.

Methodology

In methodology, the study shows how data about student perceptions of school comfort room cleanliness
and awareness of cleanliness policies have been gathered and analyzed. The researcher used a quantitative,
descriptive correlational, non-experimental approach in research design. This design allows the researchers to test
the relationships between variables, especially the frequency of usage by students for comfort rooms and their
familiarity with the cleanliness policies instituted. At the same time, these relationships cannot be established as
cause-and-effect relationships.

The respondents of this study are students who are currently studying at Las Piñas City National Senior
High School Doña Josefa Campus. Students will be asked to participate voluntarily by completing an online
questionnaire to be administered within a specific period of data collection. An online questionnaire was chosen
because of its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and broad coverage; this can allow the researchers to collect
responses from as many students as possible with various standpoints about the subject.

It is divided into three major sections. The first section will deal with the basic demographics of the students,
including the grade level and year level, and the sex, so that research can understand perhaps what contributes to
the effects in respect of how students perceive the cleanliness of comfort rooms and whether they know about the
related policies. This section addresses the frequency of use of the comfort rooms, where it asks the students how
often they use the comfort rooms, at what time of the day it is most frequently used by them, which gives the
perspective of the direct experience of the service. The third section deals with the assessment of students'
awareness of cleanliness policies of the school and their attitudes towards the environment created by the comfort
rooms. This will enable the knowledge of how much-informed the students are regarding policies and their
feelings towards the conditions of the comfort rooms as they are today.

The suitability of the questionnaire will be pre-tested and valid by experts in education and research. The
researchers will ensure that it is valid for content, face, and construct validity prior to administering it to them.
Confirmation Ascertaining the questionnaire will be administered through Google Forms to the students and every
class will be availed of a unique link to the survey by their class teacher, which will be availed voluntarily. The
administering teachers may remind them by any other communication mode such as email, social media, or school
announcements so that no student is left out. On the last day of the period to which the data is to be taken, all
returned forms shall be cleaned up of any incomplete responses or inconsistent ones just to ensure that there will
be an accuracy about the data.

Upon analysis, Pearson's Correlation coefficient shall be used to establish if comfort room usage and
students' awareness of policies on cleanliness are significant. Descriptive statistics summarize the information
and give an overview of student behavior, using the correlation coefficient to evaluate the strength and direction
of the relationship of the variables involved, which might be followed by subgroup analyses to establish whether
there might have been demographic influences on the outcomes. This study will be conducted to test two
hypotheses: the null hypothesis, which assumes there is no significant relationship among the variables involved,
and the alternative hypothesis, which assumes there is a relationship. The overall level for this experiment will be
0.05 for the determination of an output as statistically significant.

By this end, this chapter explains the systematic approach of the researchers in gathering and analyzing
data about student behavior and their perceptions of cleanliness within Las Piñas City National Senior High
School. This can be done in a way that would help the study gain valuable insights into the effectiveness of
cleanliness policies and what should be needed for improvement of such a school environment to remain hygienic
and well-maintained.