Impact of system training on community health care workers' health teaching level

Abstract

Objective To explore the impact of concentrated teaching, self-help training, intensive training, scenario simulation and other systemic training methods on the health teaching level of community health education staff,and the impact of community health education on cultivation of residents' health behavior before and after training. Methods 60 community doctors and nurses involved in systematic training. Taught concentrated 8 hours every week, and continuous for 4 weeks with medicine, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, aesthetics and production of courseware. Trainees who awarded 80 points or more in examination took part in simulated scene training, which completed a 30-minute design of concentrated health lesson and a 15-minute design of one to one health lesson in written form and multimedia teaching. Teaching effect-site was evaluated by the residents of the community lectures. The impact on cultivation of residents' behaviors was evaluated with ruler evaluation method.Results The community health care workers' teaching ability had significant change after training: plan design (2.32 ± 1.41 vs 4.26 ±0.61 ), lectures (2.63 ±0.89 vs 4.09 ±0.93), teaching skills ( 1.97 ± 1.32 vs 3.89 ±1. 13 ), teaching aids configuration ( 1.68 ± 1. 43 vs 3.97 ± 1. 26 ), educational methods ( 2.01 ± 0. 96 vs 4.03 ±0.82), time control (2.83 ±0.26 vs 4.67 ±0.25), the classroom atmosphere (2.78 ± 1. 13 vs 4.12 ±0.67),courseware ( 2.48 ± 1. 08 vs 3.89 ± 1.02 ) , teaching the image ( 2.15 ± 1.15 vs 4.06 ± 0.78 ), overall evaluation (2.36 ± 1.21 vs 4. 16 ± 0.65 )(P ＜ 0. 0 1 ). After training, community residents' knowledge on community health care workers' one to one health education and collective health education training, and positive evaluation of helpful to students' behavior improved significantly ( x2 = 17.19,36.37 ;8.91,20.98 ;34.14,32.29) ,and all had remarkable difference( all P＜0. 01 ). Evaluating the impact of health care workers' teach on cultivating residents'health behavior after one year, it improved significantly (P ＜ 0. 01 ). Conclusion Systemic training can improve health education ability of community medical staff and the impact on cultivating residents' health behavior is remarkable. Key words: Community hygiene; Health education; Capacity training Ruler evaluation