Evaluation of intervention effect of health education on primary students with iodine deficiency disorders in Cixi City of Zhejiang Province / 中华地方病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the intervention effect of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) health education on primary students.Methods Using random cluster sampling,five towns were selected from five directions and a primary school was selected in every town in 2017.Health education was carried out to 1 505 students from grade 4 to grade 6.After 5 months intervention,the IDD awareness rate and the change in attitude were compared before and after the intervention.Results After the health education,IDD awareness rate and correct answer rate among students were all improved from 60.29％ (9 032/14 980),60.83％ (4 556/7 490) to 84.64％ (12 653/14 950),83.05％ (6 208/7 475),with statistically significant differences (x2 =2 221.33,915.01,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion Health education and intervention is an effective measure to improve the knowledge level of the IDD prevention control among primary students in Cixi City.