The effects of health education on student's knowledge and attitude about prevention of new-born diseases In Islamic azad university of Arak

Introduction and The study examined the effect of health education on student's awareness, attitudes and sense of danger about the prevention of new-born diseases. This is a quasi-experimental study that carried out among 160 students about AIDS and 156 students (from 18000 students) about hepatitis B and C through a multi-stage sampling procedure. Instrument for data gathering was a self-designed questionnaire on the basis of the goals of the study. Content validity was confirmed by expert group and reliability had been measured by Cornbrash’s alpha of about 80%. Questionnaire with 40 questions that once before training and once after training were distributed among students. The obtained data was analyzed by spss16 software and MC Nemar & Wilcoxon test. Results showed that in this study mean of high risk behavior about new-born diseases is 14.5±4.2 with maximum33 and minimum 2. There was a significant difference between student's knowledge and attitudes about the prevention of AIDS before and after training (P<0.001). In this way the knowledge about transmission in crowded places between step capture (before and after) was not significantly different (P =0.12). There was a significant difference between attitudes and feelings of students at risk for disease prevention of hepatitis B and hepatitis C before and after training (P<0.001). With attention to the impact of education on preventing cases of new-born diseases in students and young people, establishing culture with continuous use of the training process is required which can fill the gap between health information and health practices.