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An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception

Community health workers, also known as health extension workers (HEWs), play an important role in health promotion. This study evaluates HEWs’ knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy for non-communicable diseases (NCD) health promotion. HEWs (n = 203) completed a structured questionnaire on knowledg...

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Autores principales: Yenit, Melaku Kindie, Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy L., Gelaye, Kassahun Alemu, Gezie, Lemma Derseh, Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn, Abebe, Solomon Mekonnen, Azale, Telake, Shitu, Kegnie, Gyawali, Prajwal
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10178727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37174162
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20095642
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author Yenit, Melaku Kindie
Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy L.
Gelaye, Kassahun Alemu
Gezie, Lemma Derseh
Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn
Abebe, Solomon Mekonnen
Azale, Telake
Shitu, Kegnie
Gyawali, Prajwal
author_facet Yenit, Melaku Kindie
Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy L.
Gelaye, Kassahun Alemu
Gezie, Lemma Derseh
Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn
Abebe, Solomon Mekonnen
Azale, Telake
Shitu, Kegnie
Gyawali, Prajwal
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description Community health workers, also known as health extension workers (HEWs), play an important role in health promotion. This study evaluates HEWs’ knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy for non-communicable diseases (NCD) health promotion. HEWs (n = 203) completed a structured questionnaire on knowledge, attitude, behaviour, self-efficacy and NCD risk perception. Regression analysis was used to determine the association between self-efficacy and NCD risk perception with knowledge (high, medium, low), attitude (favourable/unfavourable) and physical activity (sufficient/insufficient). HEWs with higher self-efficacy were more likely to have high NCD knowledge (AOR: 2.21; 95% CI: 1.21. 4.07), favourable attitude towards NCD health promotion (AOR: 6.27; 95% CI: 3.11. 12.61) and were more physically active (AOR: 2.27; 95% CI: 1.08. 4.74) than those with lower self-efficacy. HEWs with higher NCD susceptibility (AOR: 1.89; 95% CI: 1.04. 3.47) and perceived severity (AOR: 2.69; 95% CI: 1.46, 4.93) had higher odds of NCD knowledge than their counterparts. Moreover, sufficient physical activity was influenced by HEWs’ perceived NCD susceptibility and perceived benefits of lifestyle change. Therefore, HEWs need to adopt healthy lifestyle choices to become effective role models for the community. Our findings highlight the need to include a healthy lifestyle when training HEWs, which might increase self-efficacy for NCD health promotion.
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spelling pubmed-101787272023-05-13 An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception Yenit, Melaku Kindie Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy L. Gelaye, Kassahun Alemu Gezie, Lemma Derseh Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn Abebe, Solomon Mekonnen Azale, Telake Shitu, Kegnie Gyawali, Prajwal Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Community health workers, also known as health extension workers (HEWs), play an important role in health promotion. This study evaluates HEWs’ knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy for non-communicable diseases (NCD) health promotion. HEWs (n = 203) completed a structured questionnaire on knowledge, attitude, behaviour, self-efficacy and NCD risk perception. Regression analysis was used to determine the association between self-efficacy and NCD risk perception with knowledge (high, medium, low), attitude (favourable/unfavourable) and physical activity (sufficient/insufficient). HEWs with higher self-efficacy were more likely to have high NCD knowledge (AOR: 2.21; 95% CI: 1.21. 4.07), favourable attitude towards NCD health promotion (AOR: 6.27; 95% CI: 3.11. 12.61) and were more physically active (AOR: 2.27; 95% CI: 1.08. 4.74) than those with lower self-efficacy. HEWs with higher NCD susceptibility (AOR: 1.89; 95% CI: 1.04. 3.47) and perceived severity (AOR: 2.69; 95% CI: 1.46, 4.93) had higher odds of NCD knowledge than their counterparts. Moreover, sufficient physical activity was influenced by HEWs’ perceived NCD susceptibility and perceived benefits of lifestyle change. Therefore, HEWs need to adopt healthy lifestyle choices to become effective role models for the community. Our findings highlight the need to include a healthy lifestyle when training HEWs, which might increase self-efficacy for NCD health promotion. MDPI 2023-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10178727/ /pubmed/37174162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20095642 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Yenit, Melaku Kindie
Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy L.
Gelaye, Kassahun Alemu
Gezie, Lemma Derseh
Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn
Abebe, Solomon Mekonnen
Azale, Telake
Shitu, Kegnie
Gyawali, Prajwal
An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception
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title_full An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception
title_fullStr An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception
title_full_unstemmed An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception
title_short An Evaluation of Community Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Personal Lifestyle Behaviour in Non-Communicable Disease Health Promotion and Their Association with Self-Efficacy and NCD-Risk Perception
title_sort evaluation of community health workers’ knowledge, attitude and personal lifestyle behaviour in non-communicable disease health promotion and their association with self-efficacy and ncd-risk perception
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10178727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37174162
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20095642
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