Evaluation of education effects on prevention and treatment of bioterrorism on knowledge and attitude of nurses of Mazandaran medical university

Background. at the beginning of the new millennium, with the appearance of terrorist threats including bioterrorism. The brightness of future turned dark. The most important way of confronting with bioterrorist activities as the first priority is improving the knowledge of the health and medical team at the aim of diagnosis and quick reaction against such events. Methods. the present research id a quasi- experimental study. Research population consisted of 65 nurses who posses necessary quality as under- research population, at this study questionnaires have been used for collecting information. Finding. the knowledge of nurses concerning bioterrorism was 14.79% before training while after training it reached to 94.43% the nurses attitude toward bioterrorism was 55/50% before training and after training it reached to 85.46% Conclusion. Education had a positive effect on nurses knowledge and attitude