Journal of North Khorasan

Background & Objectives: Brucellosis has an important effect in public health and socioeconomic situation in the society at most regions in the world especially in developing country. Society education is one of the basic solutions for control and prevention in this disease. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of intervention on the adoption of preventive behaviors of the disease brucellosis was based on the health belief model.

Material & Methods: In this study, 196 residents of the Ghaenat and zirkoh provinces with the multi-stage random sampling method selected and divided into two groups intervention and control then the educational intervention was performed using the Health Belief Model, for gathering Data the questionnaire consisted of demographic and health belief model was used to analyze the data structures SPSS19 software and t-test, chi-square analysis, and analysis of variance was used.

Results: The age average of the participate was in the interventions 33.2±8.8 and in the control 34.5±9.4 The two groups in terms of knowledge, severity, benefits, barriers and self-perceived differences were not significant, while after intervention the mean in all areas studied significantly higher in the intervention group than the control group. ) P<0.001( Two groups in terms of age, education, place of residence, city of residence, marital status, presence of animals and animal contact with each other was similar and there was no significant difference.

Conclusion: This study confirm the efficacy of the educational intervention program based on health belief model on preventive behaviors in the brucellosis disease. According to the results of this study we can use the health belief model as a framework for designing educational interventions for prevention and control Zoonosis disease, particularly brucellosis.

Key word: health belief model, brucellosis, Ghaenat , zirkoh, educational intervention