The development of a training course for Health Volunteers to be competent in Tuberculosis

Abstract

The purposes of the research were to develop a training course for the tuberculosis expert health volunteers and evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum. There are four steps of the research and the curriculum development as follows: the study and analysis of the basic data; the curriculum design and development; trial of the course; assessments and course Improvement. The sample group for the study was undertaken by means of purposive sampling. There were 30 health volunteers. The one-group pretest-posttest design was used to compare the differences between the average scores on the knowledge of tuberculosis, pre- and post of training. The attitude towards training course was measure. Statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation and dependent samples t-test. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that: the training course and its curriculum was successful at the high degree. The curriculum was appropriate to be adopted in the actual situation in the real life; The knowledge score before and after of the training had a statistically significant increased. The result of the assessment the attitude towards the developed training curriculum was at the high level. This course is therefore suitable to train public health volunteers to have competent in screening and finding new patients to providing continuous care of tuberculosis patients at home. This will help alleviate the workload of health personnel to a certain extent. It will also help shorten the cycle of tuberculosis transmission in the community soon. This will benefit tuberculosis control and make the strategic plan goals a reality.