Health Awareness Package to Avert Helicobacter Pylori Infection among Family Members | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 26, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 448-470 PDF (706.93 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.142233 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Donia Atef Ibrahiem1; Amany Mohamed Saad2 | ||
| 1Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University | ||
| 2Assistant professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Helicobacter pylori are common bacteria that cause pain and may lead to ulcers or stomach cancer. The awareness package is a process that educates family members to promote their knowledge and practice towards the prevention of infection. Aim: Evaluate the effect of a health awareness package to avert helicobacter pylori infection among family members. Design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized. Setting: The study was carried out in the internal medicine outpatient clinic at Helwan General Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample includes seventy five family members. Tools: An interview questionnaire was used, it included three parts: Part I. Family member's socio-demographic characteristics. Part II. Knowledge about Helicobacter pylori infection. Part III. Reported practices. Results: Slightly three-quarters of the family members’ had poor knowledge pre package, while more than three- quarters of them had good knowledge after the health awareness package. Also, there was a radical satisfactory improvement among the majority of family members’ total score of reported practices after the health awareness package in the post-test rather than of the pre-test. (P-value = 0.000). There was a statistically significant strong direct correlation between total scores of pre and post-knowledge and reported practices of health awareness package (p > 0.001). There were highly statistically significant relationships between family members’ total scores of knowledge and reported practices and socio-demographic characteristics. Conclusion: Utilization of health awareness packages achieving significant improvements in the family members’ knowledge and practice. Also, there was a positive correlation between total scores of knowledge and reported family members’ practices and their socio-demographic characteristics. Recommendations: Healthy hygienic guidelines are needed to avert the incidence of H. Pylori infection and strengthen the knowledge and practices among high-risk populations and low socioeconomic families | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Health awareness package; Helicobacter pylori; Family members | ||
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