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NCT Number: NCT06933082

Health Beliefs Model, Enhancing Workers' Adherence,Personal Protective Equipment

Personal protective equipment is designed to protect workers from serious workplace injuries or illnesses resulting from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. It may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, and full body suits.

True experimental design, using randomized controlled trial approach, is carried throughout the present study to determine the efficacy of applying the Health Beliefs Model in enhancing health behaviors of workers related to personal protective equipment wear at Diyala state company for the period of February 1 2024 through January 1 2025.

The sample of the study is A probability, simple random sample and it consist of (100) worker, who are work at factories in Diyala state company .The sample is randomly selected and assigned to the study and control groups of (50) workers each for who are equally distributed from each factory.

The intervention for the study group involved a health intervention lecture about occupational hazards and personal protective equipment used based on HBM. Analyzed data using SPSS, Version 23 using descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics and mixed design analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Findings of this study depict that there were statistically significant differences among all concepts of the HBM related to occupational hazards prevention by using PPE.

This study concluded that Applying HBM demonstrates the importance of PPE use in prevention of occupational hazard or accident in workplace and has a positive impact on workers' behaviors.

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Key information

Conditions

Occupational Toxicity and Health Hazards of the Healthcare Providers at Healthcare Facilities in Sulaimani City, Iraq

Age range

20 year–60 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Iraqi/ Diyala state company, Baghdad, Iraq

About this study

Occupational Exposure to Lead, Nickel and Copper among Workers in Diyala State Company, The objective of this study was assessment occupational exposure to Pb, Ni, and Cu metals of workers in Diyala state company. Eighty two blood samples were collected (58 blood samples from workers working in the Diyala State Company and 24 samples from control samples for employees who don't relate with industrial emissions). Five ml. of venous blood was withdrawn for each sample. The concentration of Pb, Ni and Cu in the blood samples was determined by using the Flame less Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (FLAAS), depending on the years of work, high levels of Pb, Ni, and Cu in company workers than controls with significant differences (p<0.05). the investigates noticed increase levels of Pb, Ni, and Cu with occupation period progression, where it is found the levels of Pb, Ni, and Cu scored highest mean within 21-34 occupation period, and least mean value at <1 occupation period . Based on occupational places, investigates noticed highest levels of Pb in Iron heart worker , Ni level was highest in painting worker , and Cu level was highest in wires worker and least of all metals was at controls. Depending on age stages, investigates showed increase levels of Pb, Ni, and Cu with age stages progression, where it is found the levels of Pb, Ni, and Cu scored highest mean within >50 age stage, while the least mean value of Pb, and Cu at 3-40 years age stage, and least mean value of Ni was at <30 age. Finally, we notice there are positive correlations among metals and workers age.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

workers' working in factories with high occupational hazards and morning staff work.

Exclusion criteria

officials , administrative department employees,employees who did not agree to participate and those who are work in evening shift.

Treatment and study plan

An intervention program has been developed acceding to The field visit conducted by researcher before the start of the study and observed the work environment and the lack of commitment of workers t

Behavioral

An intervention program has been developed acceding to The field visit conducted by researcher before the start of the study and observed the work environment and the lack of commitment of workers to implementing the occupational health and safety program despite the existence of this program in the company.this intervention program based on health belief model in improventing workers' adherence related to occupatioan hazards prevention by wearing PPE. Validity and pre-test are applied prior to the implementation of the intervention program. The program is comprised of five main lecture each lecture is designed and scheduled for at least (45) minutes which deals with changing of workers' health beliefs about occupatioan hazards prevention.All lectures are presented at conference hall in the company.The implementation of health intervention program is initiated during the period of June 20th, 2024 to June 25th, 2024. Each lecture is designed and scheduled for approximately (45)

Primary outcomes

The data were analyzed and interpreted through use of the application of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 26.0.

Time frame: Four weeks after administering the applied HBM Intervention (July 25th, 2024) the researcher performed posttest-I for all study participants. Then, eight weeks later (25 Septamber, 2024) the researcher performed posttest-II.

The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 26.0. Descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation, were calculated for the data. To explore group differences over time regarding wearing personal protective equipment to prevent or reduce occupational hazards, a repeated measures ANOVA was conducted. The Spear man correlation was used to examine the relationships between variables, while the point-bi-serial correlation was employed to find the association between binary and continuous variables. Normality of the data was tested using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Baghdad

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Efficacy of the Health Beliefs Model - Based Intervention in Enhancing Workers' Adherence to Wearing Personal Protective Equipment in Diyala State Company:

Acronym: HBM PPE

Important dates

Study start: 2024
Primary completion: 2024
Study completion: 2024
First posted: Apr 18, 2025
Registry last updated: Apr 18, 2025

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