EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AWARENESS EDUCATION TO CLEANING WORKERS FOR PREVENTING HEALTH-THREATENING BEHAVIORS
Project no. 793 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
This research has been conducted in order to evaluate the to determine health-threatening behaviors and evaluation of the effectiveness of awareness education for provide healthy lifestyle behaviors to cleaning workers. The research was conducted within two steps. The health-threatening behaviors of the workers were defined in the cross sectional part while the effects of the training program on the healthy lifestyle behaviors of the workers were examined in the second step which was semi experimental. The research was conducted within a county municipality in Aegean district between June 2017 and December 2018. The sample of the study includes 208 cleaning workers in the first step and 21 of the workers who were found to have health-threatening behaviors and volunteered to participate in the second step. In the first section of the study, “Descriptive Information Form” “Violence Screening Survey”, “Trait Anger and Anger Expression Scales” and “Healthy Life Style Behaviour Scale II” which were built within the existing literature were used in order to collect data. Questionnaire form which was built by researchers according to the literature and the context of the training was used in the second section. SPSS 22.0 software was used in the analysis of the data collected. The data were evaluated within 95% confidence interval with significance p?0,05. The necessary permission has been obtained from Ege University Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Committee in writing for conducting the research. Average age of the workers were calculated as 41,22±7,45 and it was found that 85,1% of the participants were male. 81,3% of the workers were married and 1% of them are illiterate while 48,6% have only elementary degree. 60,4% of the workers reported that they smoke cigarettes as 26,6% of the workers drink alcohol and 0,5 % of the workers state that they used health-damaging substance. Avarage score of the workers in the “Healthy Life Style Behaviour Scale II” was 133,82±28,81. 40 of the participating workers (n=208) were found out to be in the risk group within the context of healthy behaviors. 21 of those workers volunteered to participate in the healty lifestyle behaviors training programme. Some positive changes were observed in healthy diet habits and some anger attitudes of workers who participated in the training programme. The research indicated that the training programme targeting the workers was effective for developing behavior even the effects was in limited subjects. In addition to it may suggested in order to workers are gained healty lifestyle behaviours, to conduct time-spread programmes focusing on only one behavioural subject that are designed according to the working shifts of the workers.