title: Evaluation of Water Sanitation Health Education Programme: Working with the Knowledge of the Basic Sanitation Services in a Developing Community in Rural Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study is to measure the knowledge regarding the new sanitation water system being implemented in Dessources, a rural community in the municipality of Croix-des-Bouquets in Haiti after a two-year intervention programme.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional epidemiologic design was used to measure the knowledge of the people in the community using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data collection followed a face-to-face interview process in all houses of the community. The instrument content validity was performed by a panel of experts followed by Cronbach's alpha test to establish the reliability of knowledge scale. In addition, association measures were done using Stata 11.0 statistical package.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Content validity test were performed with minimum changes and an alpha of 0.74 was obtained for the scale. Response rate was 65.57% (41/60 houses); non-participants were only those who did not meet the inclusion criteria. Most of the participants (77.5%) were 21-49 years old and 85% had been living in the community for more than 20 years. Bivariate analysis showed that the people of Dessources had adequate knowledge. Significant differences, however, were found among the zones that are not in use of the new sanitary systems and among families with more than seven members per house.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Differences found can be explained based on the Rogers theoretical diffusion of innovation model. The evaluation shows that people of Dessources in Haiti have a high knowledge regarding the new water sanitation system and provided evidence of an adequate health education programme intervention.
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Medical Sciences Campus, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. victor.reyes4@upr.edu.
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Reyes-Ortiz
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Calderón-Alicea
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cintrón-García
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cintrón-García
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Colón Cruz
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hernández-Muñoz
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Irizarry-Pérez
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lockward
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Neste-Laboy
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ortíz-León
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peréz-Homar
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ramírez-López
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soto-Ortíz
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration Department, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres-García