Effectiveness of Health Promotion Program on Nurses’ Knowledge about Preventing Transmission of Communicable disease at Primary Health Care Centers in Al -Amara City

Abstract

Background: Promoting and sustaining the knowledge of nurses in primary health care centers about
preventing transmission of communicable diseases intended to enable the nurse to develop health trends
in people, building healthy behavior, and enable the people to understand health messages to their families
about preventing the spread of communicable diseases.
Objective: The study aim to evaluate the nurses’ knowledge about preventing transmission of Communicable
disease at Primary Health Care Centers, and to construction of educational program.
Methodology: A quasi-experimental design has been carried out from (19) Primary Health Care Centers
started from the 17th, November 2019 to 12th, April 2021. Select purposive sample comprised of 50 nurses
is divided into two groups equally, study group were exposed to the nursing educational program, and
control group. Constructed the study instrument by researcher. Questionnaire consisted of (56) questions to
evaluate the nurses’ knowledge about preventing transmission of Communicable diseases. The validity of
the instrument obtained by 15 experts panel while reliability of instrument is determined using test and retest
approach. The analysis of data by application of description statistic (frequency, percentage, arithmetic
mean and standard deviations) and inferential statistical (ANOVA, t-test and chi-square test)
Results: The study reveal that the majority of nurses had deficit level of knowledge of evaluation at pre -test
while control group were moderate level of knowledge about preventing transmission of Communicable
disease in Health promotion and Immunization units, while for post-test1,post-test2 presented improve in
study group for knowledge.