Effects of Promotion Health Care Workers for Infection Prevention on Knowledge and Practices of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Prevention on Health Network Kaset wisai Using Reinforcement of Behavior Hull

Abstract

The purposes of this pre-experimental design research purposes were to explore the effects of promotion health care workers for Infection prevention on knowledge and practices of mycobacterium tuberculosis prevention on health network Kaset wisai using reinforcement of behavior Hull. The first group consisted of 16 respondents working on tuberculosis patients, including nurses, public health technical officer in district health promotion hospitals and Kaset Wisai district public health offices, The second group was a group of health workers who work in a tuberculosis clinic, Kaset wisai hospital 11 respondents. The tools used in the development include a training plan to educate, practical guide to posters, newslette, and feedback.  The tools used in the data collection were knowledge, practical questionnaire, and record of observation. The content validity index was tested by content experts. Wilcoxon match-pairs, Signed Ranks Test and Fisher exact test were used for data analysis. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean (μ), standard deviation (σ), Wilcoxon match-pairs Signed Ranks Test and Fisher exact test.

                   The results of this study revealed that: public health officials had knowledge about the prevention of tuberculosis from work, median was 13.00, the mean was 12.50, the variance was 13.00, the score was 20. After development, health workers had knowledge about prevention of tuberculosis from work. The median score was 17.62, median mean score was 0.00, variance score was 5.00 points from  20 point score, significantly higher than  pre-development score (p-value = 0.001). After the development of health personnel, activities were conducted to prevent tuberculosis infection in all activities. All activities were increased from 55.56% to 96.30%, which was higher than before the development (p-value = 0.001), and after development of TB prevention and treatment program, it was found that all health workers were active in tuberculosis prevention activities. Every activity was increased from 66.67% to 88.89, which was significantly higher than before the development (p-value = 0.001).