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- Title
Effects of an Infection Prevention Education Program in Infant and Child for Married Immigrant Vietnamese Women.
- Authors
Ji-young Seo; Eun Young Kim
- Abstract
Purpose: This study was conducted to examine the impact of infection prevention program on the knowledge and performance among married Vietnamese immigrant women an infant or child. Methods: A non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. Participants were 53 Vietnamese women with an infant or a child in G city. The treatment (n=25) received an infection prevention program series that included eight sessions over a four week period with four time through telephone interviews a weekly intervals. Data were collected between October 26 and December 14, 2012, and were analyzed Chi-square, t-test, and repeated measure analysis of variance with SPSS/WIN 18.0. Results: The treatment group reported significantly higher scores in infection prevention knowledge (F=43.98, p<.001) and infection prevention performance (F=92.61, p<.001) at four and eight weeks following the treatment as compared to the control group. Conclusion: Results suggest that an infection prevention program is beneficial in increasing knowledge and performance to prevent infection.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH literacy; REPEATED measures design; INFECTION control; T-test (Statistics); INTERVIEWING; FISHER exact test; CHI-squared test; EXPERIMENTAL design; PRE-tests &; post-tests; LONGITUDINAL method; ANALYSIS of variance; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Korean Journal of Adult Nursing, 2013, Vol 25, Issue 4, p422
- ISSN
1225-4886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7475/kjan.2013.25.4.422