عنوان المقالة:تقييم معارف واتجاهات الطلبة نحو التهاب الكبدي بي و سي في جامعة سوهاج/مصر Assessment of Students Knowledge and Attitude Toward Hepatitis B and C in Sohag University/Egypt
Objective: To determine the effect of health education on the student knowledge in Sohag University
regarding hepatitis B and C and to compare with four different faculties educational fields.
Methods: the study was conducted at Sohag University from the period 8 - samples
was consist of undergraduate students from four faculties in Sohag University, Sohag Governorate
attended an interactive symposiums using Power Point presentation on present study and completed
demographic and pre-post-interactive symposiums questionnaires. Both tests included the same questions
with addition of five questions added to post-test about customs and attitudes that will be change after
symposiums.
Results: The respondents were made up of ( 9%) students faculty of Arts, ( %) faculty of
Nursing, 7 ( 8%) faculty of Commerce and (8 9%) was faculty of Education. Eighty-four 68 %
of the total students were female while 7% were males with mean age 8 89 ± 98 years (range 7-
) Most of them ( 8%) were rural The level of knowledge in pre-test scores were poor in all students
especially non-biological science compare to the post-test, the overall test scores were improved
significantly. There was statistically significant correlation between knowledge and type of education,
while the age, gender, and students residence were not found to have an important influence on their
knowledge scores as well the study revealed that 7 6% of students were have family history of hepatitis.
Conclusion: Health education through symposiums and awareness campaigns are effective in improving
toward hepatitis knowledge and attitude among University students.Recommendation: The present study demonstrates a need for further HBV, HCV education for a larger
number of University students
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