Health Awareness Package to Avert Helicobacter Pylori Infection among Family Members

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori are common bacteria that cause pain and may lead to ulcers or stomach cancer. The awareness package is a process that educates family members to promote their knowledge and practice towards the prevention of infection. Aim: Evaluate the effect of a health awareness package to avert helicobacter pylori infection among family members. Design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized. Setting: The study was carried out in the internal medicine outpatient clinic at Helwan General Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample includes seventyfive family members. Tools: An interview questionnaire was used, it included three parts: Part I. Family member's socio-demographic characteristics. Part II. Knowledge about Helicobacter pylori infection. Part III. Reported practices. Results: Slightly three-quarters of the family members' had poor knowledge prepackage, while more than three-quarters of them had good knowledge after the health awareness package. Also, there was a radical satisfactory improvement among the majority of family members' total score of reported practices after the health awareness package in the post-test rather than of the pre-test. (P-value = 0.000). There was a statistically significant strong direct correlation between total scores of pre and post-knowledge and reported practices of health awareness package (p > 0.001). There were highly statistically significant relationships between family members' total scores of knowledge and reported practices and socio-demographic characteristics. Conclusion: Utilization of health awareness packages achieving significant improvements in the family members' knowledge and practice. Also, there was a positive correlation between total scores of knowledge and reported family members' practices and their socio-demographic characteristics. Recommendations: Healthy hygienic guidelines are needed to avert the incidence of H. Pylori infection and strengthen the knowledge and practices among high-risk populations and low socioeconomic families.

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The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Helicobacter pylori for University Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study

“…13 Interestingly, the study showed low awareness among both health and non-health science university students, indicating the need for educational programs to enhance students' awareness of H. pylori infection, which is a public health concern. Our finding of a significant increase in overall and domain-wise knowledge of H. pylori infection after the educational intervention is comparable to the findings of Ibrahiem and Saad (2021), who evaluated a health awareness package for H. pylori among family members in a hospital in terms of knowledge and hygienic practices in Egypt. 16 Although their findings are comparable to our study's, there are some differences.…”

“…Our finding of a significant increase in overall and domain-wise knowledge of H. pylori infection after the educational intervention is comparable to the findings of Ibrahiem and Saad (2021), who evaluated a health awareness package for H. pylori among family members in a hospital in terms of knowledge and hygienic practices in Egypt. 16 Although their findings are comparable to our study's, there are some differences. For instance, their sample involved family members, and they used face-to-face small-group education with a booklet.…”