Effectiveness of organization, justification and maneuver in State Welfare Organization (Behzisti) key staff of selected provinces and cities on their knowledge, attitude and organizational preparedness in order to provide psychosocial support in earthquake

MOHEB project of State Welfare Organization was focused to form local disaster management teams (in the neighborhood or village) in 2007. In order to improve the structure and communication between MOHEB local teams and welfare organization in city and province in emergencies, the project reengineered by specialized Institute of Karamodyran Iranian crisis due to some deficiencies during 2011 to 2013. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of organization, justification and holding maneuver of MOHEB project reengineering in welfare organizational staffs. In this quasi-experimental and case-control study, knowledge and attitude of welfare organization staffs and also preparedness of welfare organization of a group of four provinces which were subject to MOHEB reengineering was compared with a control group in 2014-2015 According to the findings, staff knowledge in intervention group was significantly higher than the control group (p-value<0.001). The observed difference of attitude was not statistically significant between two groups (p-value=0.110). The organizational preparedness of province welfare organization did not differ significantly between two groups; however, the preparedness of city welfare organization offices was significantly higher in intervention group. (P-value=0.029) The results showed that measures of empowerment taken including emergency organization, briefings & training sessions and reengineered MOHEB project maneuver except attitude had a significant effect on welfare organizational preparedness and staff knowledge.