Effectiveness of education health program on nurses’ knowledge toward children with Diarrhea Hospitalized in Albatool Teaching Hospital at Baqubeh City

The study aims: Assessing nurses’ knowledge toward children with diarrhea. Determining the effect of health educational program on nurses’ knowledge toward children with diarrhea. Find out the relationship between effect of health educational program and nurses general information characteristics such as (gender, age, nurses’ educational level, years of experience at general hospital, years of experience at medical word, number of training session and training session location). Evaluating the effectiveness of health educational program on nurses’ knowledge toward children with diarrhea. The analysis of data was performed through the application of descriptive statistic (frequency, percentage, Mean of score (MS), Differences between pre-post Grand Mean of Score, Standard Deviation (SD), and (RS %) Relative Sufficiency) and Inferential statistic (Chi-Square test repeated measures analyze, Binomial test, and (ANOVA) Analysis of Covariance). The findings of the present study indicated that nurses have poor knowledge before the application of the program. However, post evaluation revealed a high level of knowledge among nurses toward children with diarrhea. It also shows that there are highly significant differences between pre and (post-test 1, post-test 2) in overall main domains related to nurses’ knowledge. While, no statistical significant differences between nurses’ knowledge and their demographic characteristics.