Health Guidelines for slaughter house workers about brucellosis in Port Said city | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 44, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2020, Page 688-702 PDF (526.87 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.170637 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Maha Moussa Mohamed Moussa; Naglaa Ibrahim Mohamed Gida; Eman Ebrahim Abdou Awad Kandel | ||||
| Assistant Professor, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port- Said University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Brucellosis is an occupational hazard for slaughter house workers. Community health nurses have an important role in training them in safe practices for prevention. Aim of the study: to evaluate the effect of health guidelines for slaughter house workers about brucellosis in Port Said. Subjects and methods: The study was conducted on all 70 workers employed at Port Said slaughter house. It is located in El Gabbouti Al-Gadeed at AL-Ganoob district by using a one-group quasi experimental research design with pre-post assessment. Data were collected using a structured interview questionnaire form for worker’s knowledge of brucellosis, observation checklists for safe practices and hand washing, and a laboratory sheet for the results of brucellosis blood tests. Based on the information obtained from the initial assessment, the researchers designed the health guidelines and implemented it. Results: All workers were males with median age 42 years. Overall, 83.1% of the tested samples (n=65) demonstrated sero-positivity. Only 2 (2.9%) workers had satisfactory knowledge before the intervention, which increased to 70.0% after the intervention (p < 0.001). Moreover, 32.9% had adequate practice before the intervention, which rose to 92.9% after the intervention (p < 0.001), with significant improvement in hand washing practice (p < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, the study intervention was the main significant independent positive predictor of the scores of knowledge, hand washing practice, and total practice; the knowledge score was a significant positive predictor of the score of hand washing practice. Conclusion and recommendations: The implementation of health guidelines can be effective in remedying the deficiencies in slaughterhouse workers’ knowledge and practices. Therefore, the guidelines should be implemented in the setting and similar ones | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Brucellosis; Slaughterhouse; Sero-positivity; Knowledge; Practice | ||||
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