Effect of Student Health Champions Program about COVID- 19 Safety Precautions on School Members knowledge and Practices | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 43, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 777-800 PDF (350.53 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.153168 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Doaa Abd El Salam Amin Yacout1; Rodaina Ahmed Mokbel2; Reem Bassiouny Mahmoud El lassy1; Elham Hassan Tawfik3 | ||
| 1Assistant professor, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt | ||
| 2Lecturer -Pediatric Nursing - Faculty of Nursing- Damanhour University | ||
| 3Associate Professor - Community Based Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- The British University in Egypt (BUE) and Assistant professor, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Schools are important environment for promotion of healthy behaviors. COVID 19 preventive precautionary behaviors become mandatory worldwide for everyone. School health champion program is considered one way for school students to maintain and sustain their health and wellness knowledge and practices especially now regarding COVID 19 and help to disseminated it to other school members. Aim of study: to evaluate the effect of student health champions program about COVID-19 safety precautions on school members’ knowledge and practices. Study Design: A quasi-experimental one group pretest - posttest research design was used. Study Setting: The current study was held in five preparatory shared-gender public schools allocated in five educational administrations in El- Beheira Governorate, Egypt. Study Subjects: The study included two subjects; 60 Student Health Champions were enrolled in the first semester for 2020-2021 academic year and 40 School Members in the same schools. Data collection tools: Three tools were used to collect the required data :Student Health Champions’ /School Members’ COVID-19 Safety Precautions Knowledge Structured Questionnaire, COVID-19 Safety Precautions Practices of Student Health Champions’ /School Members’ Structured Observational Checklist and Student Health Champions’ educational program satisfaction Structured Questionnaire Results: Statistically significant relation was noticed between the students’ knowledge and practices before the program application (r= 0.528, P= 0.000) and between their knowledge and practice scores after the program (r= 0.250, P= 0.054,). Also school members’ knowledge and practices were improved post health champion program (75%, p < 0.001). As regard students’ satisfaction towards COVID- 19 school health champion safety precautions program, the majority of them (95%) had general satisfaction regarding the entire implemented program and they recommended other colleagues to participate in such programs in future. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated the effectiveness of the student health champions’ program concept in learning and education delivery to other school members covering all aspects of COVID-19 knowledge and practices, consequently, increasing their knowledge and practices significantly. Recommendations: Disseminate the concept of school health champion in different schools with different topics. Encouraging the mass media to highlight the benefits of the study on motivating school students to participate in volunteer work in order to promote the health of others. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| School health; COVID 19; Health champion; precautionary measures; knowledge and practices | ||
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