[Effect of health education on prevention from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effect of health education on prevention from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area.


METHODS
The workers for constructing "De Chang" highway in Poyang Lake area were divided randomly into an experiment group and a control group, "health education + protective skill training" was carried out in the experiment group, whereas, no intervention was implemented in the control group.


RESULTS
In the experiment group, the awareness rates of schistosomiasis control knowledge were 7.96% and 96.39% before and after the intervention, respectively; the rates of contacting infested water were 100% and 1.77% pre- and post-intervention, respectively; the work protective rates increased from zero before the intervention to 100% after the intervention; there was no person infected with schistosome after the intervention. However, in the control group, all the indexes above-mentioned had no significant changes.


CONCLUSIONS
The intervention model "health education + protective skill training", can effectively prevent from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area.
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Guo-Sheng
GS
Wu
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Xian-Lin
XL
Hong
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Zhuo-Hui
ZH
Hu
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Sheng-Wen
SW
Xu
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Guo-Lan
GL
Fu
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Shen-Zhu
SZ
Hu
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Ming-Wen
MW
Hu
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Yun-Long
YL
Fan
Schistosomiasis Control Station of Jinxian County, Jinxian 331700, Jiangxi Province, China.
Xiao-Gang
XG
Li
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D060389:Construction Industry; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D060106:Lakes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000517:prevention & control*