title: Evaluation of an educational intervention for farming families to protect their children from pesticide exposure.
abstract: A culturally appropriate educational intervention was developed and directed towards farming families in Menoufia governorate, Egypt, to improve their knowledge and practices in protecting their children from exposure to pesticides. Parents were randomly assigned to either a lecture or videotape training group. Ability to recall information or improve practices among parents was evaluated in 3 sessions: pretraining and 2 weeks and 1 month after training. Knowledge and practice scores after training of younger and more educated participants were significantly higher than older, less educated participants. Knowledge and practice performance of the videotape group was better than the lecture group and in both groups the improvement of knowledge scores after training was significantly higher than that of practice scores.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Menoufia, Egypt.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Farahat
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Farahat
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Michael
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000383:Agriculture; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004534:Egypt; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D010575:Pesticides / Q000009:adverse effects; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012423:Rural Health; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014743:Videotape Recording
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides