Assessing the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Prevention Campaign in Health Volunteers of Urmia City

ABSTRACT

Holding educational campaigns with the purpose of conveying message about one particular behavior in the target group, is one of the society-based educational strategies. This study aimed to investigate the efficiency of the Campaign of COVID-19 Prevention on Health Volunteers in Urmia. The present study was a semi-experimental research, in which the sampling was done in a census way with 200 people participated. In this study, which was done as pre- and posttest, the amount of knowledge, attitude and behavior of health volunteers were evaluated by the designed questionnaires. The campaign was held for 2 months, which has benefited from the five methods of pamphlet, banners, films, social networking sites, and educational classes. After the campaign, the knowledge level, attitude and behavior of Health Volunteers increased to 35.1%, 30.09%, and 29.2%, respectively, which was meaningful statistically. Holding the campaign can trigger positive changes in improving the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of health volunteers, leading to the prevention of a plethora of health problems in society.

KEYWORDS:

• Campaign
• COVID-19 prevention
• health volunteers

Authors’ contributions

MSJ and MAZ researched literature and conceived the study. MAZ and AS was involved in protocol development, gaining ethical approval, patient recruitment and data analysis. MFA ans MTA wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors reviewed and edited the manuscript and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Disclosure statement

The author (s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/ or publication of this article.

Ethical approval

The present study is part of a research study of the mobilization of the community in control and prevention of COVID-19 in Urmia, with the ethical code of IR.UMSU.REC.1399.227, enacted in the Ethics Committee of the research department of Urmia Medical University.

Informed consent

Written informed consent was obtained from the participants for their anonymized information to be published in this article.

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Funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.