The Effect of Educational Intervention on Preventive Behaviors towards Cutaneous Leishmaniasis at Kharameh City in 2014

lranian journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases

Goli Taravatmanesh⁴  Haleh Ghaem²  Mahin Nazari¹  Abouzar Soltani⁵  Mohammad Hossein Kaveh³ 

[1] Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Education, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Education, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;MSc Student of Health Promotion and Education, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Entomology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

关键词: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis;    Educational Intervention;    Enabling Factors;    Reinforcing Factors;    Predisposing Factors;   

DOI  :  10.17795/semj39957

学科分类：基础医学

来源: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Background:RegardingthehighprevalenceofCutaneousLeishmaniasisandthelimitedstudiesoneducatinghouseholdsthroughtheeducationalmodelsforCutaneousLeishmaniasis,thepresentstudywasdonewiththeaimofinvestigatingtheeffectsofeducationalinterventiononpreventivebehaviorstowardsCutaneousLeishmaniasisatKharamehcityin2014.Methods:ThiswasaninterventionalstudyinwhichthestatisticalpopulationwerethehouseholdscoveredbytheurbanhealthcentersofKharamehcity.110householdswereselectedastheexperimentalgroupand110oneswereselectedasthecontrolgroup.Theeducationalinterventionbasedonenablingfactors,reinforcingfactorsandpredisposingfactorswereimplemented.Beforetheinterventionandtwomonthsafterthat,therequireddatawascollectedthroughaquestionnairewhosevalidityandreliabilityhadbeenapproved.DescriptiveindicatorsaswellasindependentT-test,pairedT-testandchi-squaretestwereused.ThedatawasthenanalyzedusingtheSPSSsoftware,version16.Thesignificancelevelwasconsidered0.05inalltests.Results:Themeanscoresofknowledge,attitude,enablingfactorsandreinforcingfactorsregardingbehaviorincreasedsignificantlyintheexperimentalgroupaftertheinterventionbutnosignificantdifferencewasseeninthecontrolgroup(P≤0.0001).Conclusions:Theeducationbasedonenablingfactors,reinforcingfactorsandpredisposingfactorshadasignificanteffectonthehouseholds’behavioraswellastheCutaneousLeishmaniasiscontrol.

【 授权许可】

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