ABSTRACT

Background: Promote and maintain knowledge on the transmission of communicable diseases by nurses in primary health centers, to allow nurse to develop health trends in people, build healthy competencies and help people understand health communications to family communications that prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

Objective: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the knowledge of nurses in primary health centers, as well as building educational programmers, regarding the prevention of transmission of Communicable disease.

Methodology: A quasi-experimental design has been carried out from (19) Primary Health Care Centers started from the 17th, November 2019 to 12th, April 2021. Select purposive sample comprised of 50 nurses is divided into two groups equally, study group were exposed to the nursing educational program, and control group. Constructed the study instrument by researcher. Questionnaire consisted of (56) questions to evaluate the nurses' knowledge about preventing transmission of Communicable diseases. The validity of the instrument obtained by 15 experts panel while reliability of instrument is determined using test and retest approach. The analysis of data by application of description statistic (frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviations) and inferential statistical (ANOVA, t-test and chi-square test)

Results: The study shows that the majority of nurses have deficit evaluation level while the control group has moderate levels of knowledge in health promotion and vaccination units in primary health centers on how to prevent transmission of communicable disease while improved knowledge is provided for post-test.

Conclusion: Study showed that there were no significant differences between the two groups with their knowledge at pretest. While in the post-test showed that there were a clear improvement in their knowledge related to preventing transmission of Communicable disease and confirmed high significant differences between the study and control groups.

Keyword: Effectiveness; Health Promotion Program; Nurse; Knowledge; Preventing transmission of Communicable disease; Health Promotion and Immunization Unit.