Background: Egypt has implemented stringent preventive and precautionary steps against
COVID-19 to protect citizens. COVID-19 has a high risk of human-to-human transmission,
and millions of people worldwide have suffered negative consequences. Aim:This study
aimed to find out how an educational intervention based on the health belief model affects
the maternity nurses' behavior towards COVID-19 and its vaccine.Subjects and
Method:Setting:In the Department of Obstetrics at Zagazig University
Hospital.Subjects:An interventional study was conducted via convenience sampling on all
nurses who provided care to women during childbirth using the following tools; 1) Nurses'
demographic features; 2) Nurses' understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic; 3) The health
belief model; and 4) Nurses' COVID-19 pandemic prevention behavior.Results: The
findings revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between nurses' Covid-19
knowledge and educational intervention (P 0.000). Before and after the educational
intervention, there are statistically significant differences in the mean scores and level of
the health belief model (P 0.000). A highly significant positive correlation between the
health belief model and the intervention (r = 0.89 & p 0.000) was also
found.Conclusion:Aneducational intervention based on the health beliefs model has
significantly improved knowledge and preventive behavior of nurses towards COVID-
19.Recommendations:Workers in the health sector should be targeted for health-education
interventions since they are at a higher risk of getting COVID-19. |
