Maternity and childhood nursing department, nursing college, Najran University, KSA.
Family medicine department, College of Medicine, Najran University, Najran, KSA.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2020 Jun;24(s1):78-86. doi: 10.29063/ajrh2020/v24i2s.12.
This study aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention based on the health belief model (HBM) about COVID- 19 on nursing students' awareness and health beliefs. A true-experimental research design was conducted at nursing college, Najran University, KSA. A comprehensive sampling was followed to include all female students at the colleges (164 students). The sample was divided randomly into intervention (82) and control group (82). The educational intervention was designed and conducted based on the HBM through four sequential phases: assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The current study results indicated no statistically significant differences between intervention and control groups concerning their demographic characteristic, awareness, and health beliefs before intervention. After intervention, significant differences (p < 0.05) were observed between intervention and control groups in their awareness and all HBM constructs regarding COVID19. There were positive, statistically significant correlations (P < 0.05) between participants' total HBM score and their total awareness score. This study concluded that HBM is effective in increasing nursing students' awareness regarding COVID-19. It also increases their perceived susceptibility, severity, and benefits. Besides, it may increase their self-efficacy to overcome perceived barriers to practice protective and preventive actions while dealing with COVID-19.
本研究旨在探讨基于健康信念模式（HBM）的 COVID-19 教育干预对护理学生意识和健康信念的影响。在沙特阿拉伯纳季兰大学护理学院进行了一项真实的实验研究设计。采用全面抽样法，包括学院的所有女学生（164 名学生）。将样本随机分为干预组（82 人）和对照组（82 人）。教育干预是根据 HBM 通过四个连续阶段设计和实施的：评估、规划、实施和评估。本研究结果表明，干预组和对照组在干预前的人口统计学特征、意识和健康信念方面没有统计学上的显著差异。干预后，干预组和对照组在 COVID19 意识和所有 HBM 结构方面存在显著差异（p<0.05）。参与者的 HBM 总分与他们的总意识得分之间存在正相关（p<0.05）。本研究得出结论，HBM 能有效提高护理学生对 COVID-19 的认识。它还增加了他们对感知易感性、严重性和益处的认识。此外，它可能会增加他们克服实践保护和预防措施时的感知障碍的自我效能，以应对 COVID-19。
