The effects of health education on students' knowledge and attitude about prevention of new-born diseases In Islamic azad university of Arak

Introduction and Aims:
The study examined the effect of health education on students' awareness, attitudes and sense of danger
about the prevention of new-born diseases.
Methods:
This is a quasi-experimental study that carried out among 160 students about AIDS and 156 students
(from 18000 students) about hepatitis B and C through a multi-stage sampling procedure. Instrument for
data gathering was a self-designed questionnaire on the basis of the goals of the study. Content validity
was confirmed by expert group and reliability had been measured by Cornbrash’s alpha of about 80%.
Questionnaire with 40 questions that once before training and once after training were distributed among
students. The obtained data was analyzed by spss16 software and MC Nemar & Wilcoxon test.
Results:
Results showed that in this study mean of high risk behavior about new-born diseases is 14.5±4.2 with
maximum33 and minimum 2. There was a significant difference between students' knowledge and attitudes
about the prevention of AIDS before and after training (P<0.001). In this way the knowledge about
transmission in crowded places between step capture (before and after) was not significantly different
(P =0.12). There was a significant difference between attitudes and feelings of students at risk for disease
prevention of hepatitis B and hepatitis C before and after training (P<0.001).
Conclusion:
With attention to the impact of education on preventing cases of new-born diseases in students and young
people, establishing culture with continuous use of the training process is required which can fill the gap
between health information and health practices.

*Corresponding author:
Rahmat Alah Jadidi, Assistant Professor, Management of health care services,
Department of EDC ,Arak University of Medical Science.
Email : jadidi88@gmail.com