ABSTRACT

Background: Poultry workers are exposed to a variety of occupational health hazards on a daily basis.

Aim: To assess the effect of educational program for prevention of health hazards on knowledge and self-reported practices of poultry processing slaughterhouse’s workers in Egypt.

Methods: A quasi – experimental one group pretest- posttest design was utilized. Setting; the study was conducted in large poultry slaughterhouse at El Menofia governorate. A systematic random sample of 306 poultry workers was selected. Two tools were used to collect data, the first is Poultry processing slaughterhouse’s health hazards questionnaire and the other is an observational checklist for poultry work environment.

Results: reveals that 3.4%, 97.7% and 88.8% of workers had satisfactory level of knowledge in pre, post and follow up tests respectively.While 2.3%, 96.1% and 91.3% of workers had satisfactory level of self-reported practices in pre, post and follow up tests respectively. There was a highly statistical significant correlation between workers' knowledge, Health belief scale and self-reported practices (p=0.0001).

Conclusion: Knowledge, self-reported practices, Health belief model scale among poultry processing slaughterhouse workers had been improved after application of training program with statically significance differences between pre, post and follow up tests.

Keywords: Occupational hazards, Poultry workers and Training program