Evaluation of Health Care Workers’ Knowledge about Health Promotion at Primary Health Care Centers in Al-Hilla City

Abstract

Background: Health promotion is a process of enabling people to increase control over and improve health. Community health workers are a strong force for promoting healthy behaviors and expanding the reach of global health systems. Comprising of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, medical technologists, nurses, medical assistants, and other community workers as appropriate adequately trained socially and technically to work as a health care team and to respond to community-identified health needs. Aims: 1. To evaluate the level of health care workers' knowledge about health promotion at primary health care centers. 2. To find out relationships between health care workers' knowledge about health promotion and their demographic characteristics such as gender, age, occupation, educational qualification, job experience, participation in courses, seminars, and workshops on health promotion. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study design conducted among (315) health care workers who are selected by non-probability sampling (convenience sample), self-administered questionnaire, the scores obtained for answers to closed-ended questions were used to determine the level of knowledge, reverse questions were used, several statistical measures were used by using Statistical Package of Social Sciences version 24, in order to analyze and evaluate the results of the study. Results: The findings showed that health care workers have a moderate level of knowledge in all domains related to health promotion. In a multivariate study, the following variables were found to be highly significantly correlated with a degree of knowledge on health promotion was occupation and educational qualification (p-value =0.00). Conclusions & Recommendations: There was a moderate level of knowledge about health promotion among health care workers. As well, the greatest part of participants in this study is medical assistants and nurses.