Ortiz-Rosales A, Vázquez-Céspedes M, Cedeño-Perdomo MY, Rodas-Belmonte SA, Araujo-Álvarez A

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Despite the devastating effect of COVID-19, many nations have lifted their restrictions. It is necessary to keep addressing this problem using the promotion via, in order to increase people's health training.
Objective: To assess the efficacy of an educational program performed to increase the level of knowledge concerning COVID-19 in patients who live in the Aponwao Village, Caroni, Venezuela, during the period November 2021-February 2022.
Method: A pre-experimental intervention study was carried out, with a before-and-after design implied. A total of 85 patients were chosen as sample, selected by simple random sampling. It was applied a survey to all the patients selected, an educational-didactic and interactive program was designed and implemented, and a final evaluation was carried out to verify the effectiveness of the program.
Results: Female sex was the most representative group (54.1%) and 41.2% of patients were in the age group of 25 to 44. The predominant risk factor was the non-use of means for prevention against COVID-19 infection (28.6 %) and 17.6 % of patients surveyed suffered from hypertension. Before carried out the intervention study, 48.2% of participants had an insufficient level of knowledge; after applied the educational program, 52.9% increase their knowledge passing to ¨Good¨ knowledge level.
Conclusions: The implementation of the educational program made possible to increase the level of knowledge concerning COVID-19, so that its efficacy for preventing this infection in Primary Health Care it is effective.

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