The Effect of Safety Measure Educational Guideline on Knowledge, Practice and Adverse Health Outcomes among Pesticide Workers | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 23, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 297-315 PDF (507.05 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.106793 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fatma A. Eiz–Elregal1; Shimaa Mabrouk2; Hend Hassan Ali3 | ||
| 1Community Health Nursing , Faculty of Nursing , Fayoum University | ||
| 2Public health and community medicine, faculty of medicine, Fayoum University | ||
| 3Community Health nursing in Obstetrics and Gynecological hospital .Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill or control pests which include insects and rodents, in addition to a virus, bacteria, fungi, and other organisms. They play a key role in the protection, prevention, responding to outbreaks, and control of infectious diseases. The continuous exposure of the workers to pesticides leads to adverse health outcome due to that the workers do not apply safety measure guideline. Aim: of this study was to evaluate the effect of safety measure educational guideline on knowledge, practice and adverse health outcomes among pesticide workers. Subjects and methods: Design: A quasi experimental design (one group pre/posttest) was used for the conduction of this study. Setting: The study was conducted at all sections of disease vector control of the General Department of Vector Control, in the Directorate of Health Affairs, at Cairo Governorate. The sample: A convenient sample from (120) pesticide workers. Tools of data collection: The study included three tools: A structured interview questionnaire, an observation checklist (pre/post-tests) and a self-reported health assessment sheet of adverse health outcomes of pesticide workers. Results: All of the pesticide workers were male with a mean age33.2 ± 4.7 and less than two third are married. The study denoted that there were poor total knowledge and inadequate total practice score pre educational guideline and highly significant (p=0.000) improvements of total score of workers knowledge and practice at the post-test. Conclusion: The educational guideline had a positive effect on pesticide workers knowledge and practice. In addition , a significant reduction was observed in posttest regarding adverse health outcomes. Recommendations: Periodic safety measure educational guideline for all workers exposed to pesticides with continuous use of personal protective equipment and following safety instructions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pesticide workers; safety measure; educational guideline; adverse health outcomes | ||
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