Educational Intervention Based on Health Action Model to Promote Safe Behavior of Hospital Workers

Abstract

Abstract Background: Hospitals are the most dangerous health service centers in the health system, and their service workers are exposed to all kinds of serious risks, which in some cases are life-threatening. So The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of educational intervention based on the Health action model to promote the safe behavior of hospital workers. Methods: Several 45 workers in each of the control and intervention groups participated in a quasi-experimental study. Demographic information and data related to health action model constructs were collected through a questionnaire and a checklist, immediately and three months after the intervention. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were used to confirm the properties of the tools. Educational intervention accompanied was applied in the form of four training classes. The data were analyzed using SPSS 20 software. Results: Before the intervention, there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographics and the study’s main variables. Three months after the intervention training, however, results showed significant changes in mean scores of safe behavior (12.53 ± 1.68), Attitude (16.06 ± 2.6), norms (29.24 ± 4.25), belief (52.71 ± 4.42), intention (33.24 ± 1.44), knowledge (41.97 ± 1.68) in the experimental group (P < 0.001). Conclusions: The research results show that Health action model educational intervention can change workers’ awareness, attitudes, norms, beliefs, and intentions toward unsafe behavior and improve their safety performance. Trial registration: IRCTID: IRCT20160619028529N7