Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene among pre-adolescent students in public and private schools in Jordan: cross-sectional school-based study

BackgroundMaintaining good hygiene, which is easily applied with access to safe and adequate water, is an important preventive step against various infectious disease transmissions that might spread as a result of unclean water and inadequate sanitation. Jordan is one of the world's most water-stressed countries, and only one in three schools has basic sanitary facilities, which poses severe he...