Health Beliefs Model, Enhancing Workers' Adherence,Personal Protective Equipment

Summary

Personal protective equipment is designed to protect workers from serious workplace injuries or illnesses resulting from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. It may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, and full body suits.

True experimental design, using randomized controlled trial approach, is carried throughout the present study to determine the efficacy of applying the Health Beliefs Model in enhancing health behaviors of workers related to personal protective equipment wear at Diyala state company for the period of February 1 2024 through January 1 2025.

The sample of the study is A probability, simple random sample and it consist of (100) worker, who are work at factories in Diyala state company .The sample is randomly selected and assigned to the study and control groups of (50) workers each for who are equally distributed from each factory.

The intervention for the study group involved a health intervention lecture about occupational hazards and personal protective equipment used based on HBM. Analyzed data using SPSS, Version 23 using descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics and mixed design analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Findings of this study depict that there were statistically significant differences among all concepts of the HBM related to occupational hazards prevention by using PPE.

This study concluded that Applying HBM demonstrates the importance of PPE use in prevention of occupational hazard or accident in workplace and has a positive impact on workers' behaviors.

Conditions

• Occupational Toxicity and Health Hazards of the Healthcare Providers at Healthcare Facilities in Sulaimani City, Iraq

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

An intervention program has been developed acceding to The field visit conducted by researcher before the start of the study and observed the work environment and the lack of commitment of workers t

An intervention program has been developed acceding to The field visit conducted by researcher before the start of the study and observed the work environment and the lack of commitment of workers to implementing the occupational health and safety program despite the existence of this program in the company.this intervention program based on health belief model in improventing workers' adherence related to occupatioan hazards prevention by wearing PPE. Validity and pre-test are applied prior to the implementation of the intervention program. The program is comprised of five main lecture each lecture is designed and scheduled for at least (45) minutes which deals with changing of workers' health beliefs about occupatioan hazards prevention.All lectures are presented at conference hall in the company.The implementation of health intervention program is initiated during the period of June 20th, 2024 to June 25th, 2024. Each lecture is designed and scheduled for approximately (45)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Baghdad

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-06-06

Primary Completion

2024-06-17

Completion

2024-09-25

Countries

• Iraq

Study Locations