2134/26761
Charles Edgar
Charles
Edgar
M. Sohail (Khan)
M.
Sohail
Sue Cavill
Sue
Cavill
Rethinking the effectiveness of defecation postures and practices: it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it!
Loughborough University
2017
Sanitation
Hygiene
Defecation
Anal cleansing
Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
2017-09-29 13:10:33
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Rethinking_the_effectiveness_of_defecation_postures_and_practices_it_s_not_what_you_do_it_s_the_way_that_you_do_it_/9449318
This paper reports on a piece of research to investigate the effectiveness of defecation postures and anal cleansing method. The research compared how long each bowel movement took on a pedestal toilet with and without a footstool. Volunteers were asked to compare the two positions for speed as well as stress/strain on the body. The effectiveness of the method of anal cleansing was also rated by a subset of the volunteers. Although the study was conducted using volunteers in the UK, the findings have international relevance for sanitation marketing and hygiene promotion programmes.