Background: Poultry industry introduces practices, which create hazards and risks
to workers.
Aim: To Implement and evaluate occupational health program about control
and prevention of occupational health hazards among poultry farms’ workers.
Design: A Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest research design carried out in
the present study, within 14 poultry farms at Assuit district which selected
randomly.
Methods: Convenient sample are used, for the worker. The study was contained
two tools. Tool I Structured interview questionnaire developed by the
researcher. It was structured into three parts,
Part 1: designed to assess personal characteristics.
Part 2: designed to assess medical history and current complains
Part 3: designed to assess workers' knowledge about: -Occupational health
hazards, the second tool observational check list to assess workers practice.
Results: reveals that 1.4% and 50.4% of workers had good level of knowledge in
pre and posttest respectively. While 14.2 and 78.6 had good level of practice
in pre and posttest respectively. There was positive correlation between total
knowledge and practice post application of educational program. There was a
highly statistically difference in which p<0.0001.
Conclusion: there was strong positive correlation between total knowledge and
practice posttest(r=0.001**).
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