Effectiveness of health education on the knowledge of the mothers toward pertussis disease and vaccination in Al-Hashimiya District-Babylon Governorate

الملخص EN

The aim of this study is to study effectiveness of health education on the knowledge of the mothers toward pertussis disease and vaccination.

A descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried out during the period from 9th January till 10th of March 2014.

Data were collected by the researcher, by using a special questionnaire format was constructed for this purpose, The sample of the study were (150) mothers visit Al-Hashimiya health centers.

The results of the study shows that the majority of the participants 63(42%) were between age groups (20 – 29) years, 148(98.7%) were reported as married, related to the education 78(52%) were read-write and primary, the majority of the sample are "Housewife", and they accounted 139 (92.7%).

Additionally, the results has indicated that there are a highly significant differences for all items of mothers knowledge concerning pertussis disease at pre-post test period.

Regarding to source of information the results indicated that the mothers answered with health employees at pre-test were 125(83.3%),while the mothers answered with health employees at post-test period were 142(94.7%).