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VOL. 7, ISSUE 4 (2025)
Educational program about control and prevention of occupational health hazards among poultry farms' workers at Assiut District
Authors
Eman Reyad Moatamed Zedan, Dr. Hoda Diab Fahmy Ibrahim, Dr. Neama Mohamed El Magrabi, Dr. Asmaa Mahfouz
Abstract

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**).

Recommendation: Workers must wear appropriate personal protective equipment such as gloves, mask and aprons, and wearing special clean clothes, and disinfecting boots before and after visiting chicken houses.
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Pages:46-54
How to cite this article:
Eman Reyad Moatamed Zedan, Dr. Hoda Diab Fahmy Ibrahim, Dr. Neama Mohamed El Magrabi, Dr. Asmaa Mahfouz "Educational program about control and prevention of occupational health hazards among poultry farms' workers at Assiut District". International Journal of Nursing and Health Research, Vol 7, Issue 4, 2025, Pages 46-54
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