CH 3
CH 3
Proponents:
Elecciones, Althea
Masong, Lleuan A.
2023
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
A comfort room is designed to help reduce stress and tension, as well as assist a
student with developing coping skills so he/she can maintain control in triggering situations. A
comfort room provides a supportive therapeutic environment where individuals can use self-
designated space that is intentionally designed to help calm an individual when that person feels
Comfort rooms are very essential not only to the students in school but also to
the teachers, guests, facilitators, so on and forth. Without it, no comfort shall be served to any
of them. However, with the lack of essentials, materials, and security, comfort rooms may
also serve no comfort at all. This is why this study is conducted to ensure that the
aforementioned individuals may find the City of Bogo Senior High School’s STEM/HUMSS
building comfort rooms as comfortable as they should. The study aims to provide solutions for
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools (WinS) is a component of the UNICEF Child
Friendly, Equitable and Quality Basic Education program. The Department of Education
issued DepED Order No. 10, “Policy and Guidelines on the Comprehensive Water, Sanitation,
and Hygiene in Schools (WinS) Program.” This is to improve access to adequate water
supply, functional toilets and effective hygiene. This is in recognition of the importance of WASH
certain problem, and determine how we're going to solve it. The issue with the comfort rooms
at STEM/HUMSS building is what we want to look into. The safety of every student using
student’s safety by providing them with materials and equipment for the comfort room, to
support their security by offering locks, signs, essentials, and cleaning materials. . The comfort
room should be safe to use and in good condition. Students will also be far from bacteria or
disease if the comfort room is clean. Maintaining the cleanliness of the restrooms has a good
impact; it will make the restrooms at the school appear presentable and comfortable to anyone
who needs to use the comfort room. Also, it minimizes complaints about the environment in the
restrooms at the school, such as the smells, broken doors, and dirty toilets.
With the help of this study, these problems may be resolved, and it might also
encourage the administrators to pay more attention to the school's comfort rooms. The benefit
of this study is that it assures the safety and security of the students and other users of the
comfort rooms at the school. It is beneficial to the school itself to have a good image in terms of
cleanliness and hygiene. It will also benefit future researchers to know the possible problem
they will encounter and how to resolve it easily if they will conduct research similar to this work.
The researchers can support the school in boosting student safety by offering these things.
Research Question
High School. Implementation of water, sanitation and hygiene in school helps improve the
school comfort rooms safety and security which affect the students, teachers and other school
staff health. The purpose of this study is to provide equipments/materials which develop the
Hygiene in School (WinS) in enhancing the safety and security in the City of
that promotes correct hygiene and sanitation practices. WinS program has eight components,
the intervention will only focus on Provision of Toilet, Hand washing Facilities and Provision of
Pre-Implementation
Before the intervention, the researchers will count and list the number of lacking
and needs of the comfort room basing the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). From door
locks, essentials, hygiene tools and cleaning tools. The researchers will take note of the
budgets that is needed for the intervention. In order to achieve the target budget, researchers
will ask for financial support from the school and community, such as solicitation, asks support
During Implementation
After reaching the right amount of the budget needed, researchers will continue
to implement the WinS through the help of school staff and janitors, the researchers will also
get involve. With the designated day which is Friday, the staff or janitors and the researchers
will be having an overall general cleaning for comfort rooms. This time, those comfort rooms
that lacks water the staff will prepare or store water in a barrel with a small pail. In order to keep
the students safe and secured, door locks will be attached, hand washing soap and tissue will
Post Implementation
After the intervention, with the permission of the school principal the research will orient each
classroom advisers the possible strategies in maintaining the cleanliness of the comfort.
The advisers will also orient their students about the changes. After the orientation, the
Design
used to investigate the interaction between independent and dependent variables, which can be
collection, and analysis of the results. With the collected data and through descriptive analysis
researchers will be able to determine the level of effectiveness of the WinS Implementation.
Participants
The participants of this action research will be the grade 11 and 12 STEM students
from Presidents and Secretary every section in STEM/HUMSS building. The researchers will
use Cluster sampling which is a method where the researchers divide the entire population
sample based on demographic parameters like age, sex, location, etc. The whole population in
STEM/HUMSS building are divided into section of President, Vice President, and Secretary
Data Gathering
The researchers will seek permission to the school principal and research advisers
to conduct a survey. The teachers and students of City of Bogo Senior High School will be
formally requested for permission by the researchers to conduct this study and provide the
resources for the research, respectively. The respondent's value to the study will be explained
by the researcher to them. The researchers will explain that there is no right or incorrect
answers and that their responses should reflect what they would actually do in each situation,
rather than what they think should be done. As soon as the request is approved, an online
survey through Google Forms will be given to the 18 participants which are the classroom
officers of each room. The survey contains 15 questions with use of 5 Point Likert Scale as the
response. The researchers will conduct the questionnaire during the allocated "vacant" time to
prevent being distracted by class discussions. There will be enough time given for the
respondents to answer the questions. After collecting all the data needed, with the help of the
class officers of each class, the results will be saved for analyzing and interpreting.
Data Analysis
Once the questionnaire is collected from the respondents, it will be coded to IBM SPSS,
it is an effective and quick tool in collecting, tabulating the gathered data. It is also time friendly
for it contains formula for faster computation. In analyzing the data Descriptive Analysis will be
utilize, in converting the raw data into meaningful information. Descriptive analysis is a sort of
data analysis that aids in accurately describing, displaying, or summarizing data points so that
patterns may appear that satisfy all of the data's requirements. Descriptive analysis will be used
Ethical Considerations
Several outcomes concerns will be considered to guarantee that this study is carried
out properly. The following ethical principles guide the researcher to conduct this study:
purpose, benefits and the risks of this study. The researchers will do everything to ensure that
this study and not forced or intimidated to participate. Participants have the freedom to
should consider possible harm in this study. Assure that the responses of the participants will
Confidentiality: Any information will remain between the participant and the
research team to ensure the safety of participants. This is to ensure the protection and privacy
about the participants will be strictly confidential and will not be released without the
participants’ consent.
References:
Luistro A. (2016). Policy and Guidelines for the Comprehensive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
https://wins.deped.gov.ph/about/
Chapter 3: Discussion of Results and Reflection
Table 1. Students response towards the level of effectiveness in implementing WinS for Water.
Descriptive Statistics
In the first statement, the mean is 2.47. Hence, it means that the majority of the participants are
in need of adequate water supply. The mean of the second statement is 2.41 which implies that
the participants don’t have enough water to use when needed. The third statement’s mean is
3.29 which means that the participants are neutral as to whether they use safe and clean water
in times of need. In the fourth statement, the mean is 2.94. That means the participants are
proven neutral as to whether the faucet functions very well or not. In the fifth statement, its
mean is 3.24 which resulted in the participants becoming neutral as to whether they found
for Sanitation
Descriptive Statistics
In the first statement, the mean is 4.06. This means that the majority of the participants
feel secured when using the comfort room. The mean of the second statement is 3.47, which
means that the participants were able to feel comfortable using their respective comfort rooms.
The third statement’s mean is 3.47 which means that the participants’ safety is prioritized. In the
fourth statement, the mean is 2.59. That means the participants are still in need of help
regarding the smell of the comfort rooms. In the fifth statement, its mean is 3.82 which means
Table 3. Students response towards the level of effectiveness in implementing WinS for
Hygiene
Descriptive Statistics
The first statement's mean is 3.71. This means that the participants were able to make use of
the essentials provided. The mean of the second statement is 3.65 which means that the participants
were able to maintain proper hygiene through the provided essentials. The third statement's mean is
3.47 which means that the participants were able to make use of something useful when using the
comfort room. Fourth statement's mean is 3.76, it means that the participants were able to use a neat
and clean comfort room. The fifth statement's mean is 3.65. This means that the participants were