EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS OF AUXILIARY HEALTH WORKERS (BEHVARZES) AND HEALTH VOLUNTEERS IN MEMAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PHC SYSTEM IN BROJEN CITY, CHAHARMAHAL AND BAKHTIARY PROVINCE

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BAGHERI YAZDI S.A.; MALEK AFZALI H.; SHAHMOHAMMADI D.; NAGHAVI RAVANDI M.; HEKMAT S.

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Journal: HAKIM RESEARCH JOURNAL Year:2001 | Volume:4 | Issue:2 Page(s): 100-109

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EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS OF AUXILIARY HEALTH WORKERS (BEHVARZES) AND HEALTH VOLUNTEERS IN MEMAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PHC SYSTEM IN BROJEN CITY, CHAHARMAHAL AND BAKHTIARY PROVINCE

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BEHVA17Q4

HEALTH VOLUNTEERQ4

MENTAL HEALTHQ4

PRIMARY HEALTH CAREQ4

RURAL AND URBAN AREASQ4

BROJEN CITYQ4

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate functions of Health worker and HEALTH VOLUNTEERs in MENTAL HEALTH care delivery in the PHC system in BROJEN CITY of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiary province. In order to determine the effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge and attitude of individual, 800 people above 15 years of age were selected by randomized cluster. Sampling from RURAL AND URBAN AREAS of Brojen as experimental group and 800 people above 15 years of age from rural areas of Ardal and urban areas of Shahrekord as control group. In order to assess the level of knowledge and attitude of individual, the knowledge and attitud questionnaire was used. Findings of this study has shown that "behvarzes" and "health volunteers" have been able to increase the knowledge of individuals of experimental group up. to 58% and 52% respectively, within 2 years, whereas for the control group of both RURAL AND URBAN AREAS, this measure were 0.9% and 2.4%, respectively. In order to assess the change of attitude of individuals, results has shown by taking educational courses on MENTAL HEALTH and transfering these concepts to the community, "behvarzes" and "health volunteers" have been able to make a positive alteration of about 25.4% and 21% in the attitude of individuals within 2 years in urban rural areas of experimental group, whereas for rural areas of Ardal, 0.5% and for urban areas of Shahrekord was 3%. In addition the findings has shown that the behvarzes could identify only 132 patients among 41889 population before educational intervention, whereas after 2 years implementation of this project, the number of patients reached to 561 (from 3.2 to 13.5per thousand of the population). In the urban areas of experimental group, HEALTH VOLUNTEERs could identify only 34 patients and after 2 years implementation of the project 206 patients in the 66430 population of urban areas of Brojen (from 0.5 to 3.1 per thousand). Comparative study of case finding of behvarzes and HEALTH VOLUNTEERs with investigation team has shown that behvarzes could identify 61.9%, whereas HEALTH VOLUNTEERs only 9.2%. Based on this findings the project has achieved all its predetermined specific goals except on case finding of HEALTH VOLUNTEERs, which volunteers need more time to be familiar in the society and use different methods of case finding.

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BAGHERI YAZDI, S.A., MALEK AFZALI, H., SHAHMOHAMMADI, D., NAGHAVI RAVANDI, M., & HEKMAT, S.. (2001). EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS OF AUXILIARY HEALTH WORKERS (BEHVARZES) AND HEALTH VOLUNTEERS IN MEMAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PHC SYSTEM IN BROJEN CITY, CHAHARMAHAL AND BAKHTIARY PROVINCE. HAKIM RESEARCH JOURNAL, 4(2), 100-109. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/29495/en

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BAGHERI YAZDI S.A., MALEK AFZALI H., SHAHMOHAMMADI D., NAGHAVI RAVANDI M., HEKMAT S.. EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS OF AUXILIARY HEALTH WORKERS (BEHVARZES) AND HEALTH VOLUNTEERS IN MEMAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PHC SYSTEM IN BROJEN CITY, CHAHARMAHAL AND BAKHTIARY PROVINCE. HAKIM RESEARCH JOURNAL[Internet]. 2001;4(2):100-109. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/29495/en

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S.A. BAGHERI YAZDI, H. MALEK AFZALI, D. SHAHMOHAMMADI, M. NAGHAVI RAVANDI, and S. HEKMAT, “EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS OF AUXILIARY HEALTH WORKERS (BEHVARZES) AND HEALTH VOLUNTEERS IN MEMAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PHC SYSTEM IN BROJEN CITY, CHAHARMAHAL AND BAKHTIARY PROVINCE,” HAKIM RESEARCH JOURNAL, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 100–109, 2001, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/29495/en

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