Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study assessed the personal hygiene among students in junior boarding public secondary schools in Gusau Metropolis, Zamfara State Nigeria. The study employed a descriptive survey research design.
The population of this study comprised JSS II Junior Secondary Schools students in boarding public secondary schools in Gusau, Zamfara State in 2019/2020 academic session with total population of eight hundred and thirty. A purposive sampling technique was used to select all the three boarding junior public secondary schools in Gusau metropolis. A total of 332 respondents which was 40% of the population were used for this study. The instrument used for the study was questionnaire with an internal consistency of 0.960 after pilot tested. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significant. The result indicated that, there was significant difference among JSS II students in boarding junior public secondary schools in Gusau Metropolis towards practice of personal hygiene by their age difference. The study concluded that the level of students’ practice towards personal hygiene in boarding JSS students in public junior secondary schools Gusau was moderate. It was recommended that; personal hygiene should be incorporated in school curriculum to improve students’ practice on good hygiene in junior secondary schools.