Effect of health education on prevention from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area

Objective To evaluate the effect of health education on prevention from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area. Methods The workers for constructing"De Chang"highway in Poyang Lake area were divided randomly into an experiment group and a control group,"health education + protective skill training"was carried out in the experiment group,whereas,no intervention was implemented in the control group. Results In the experiment group,the awareness rates of schistosomiasis control knowledge were 7.96% and 96.39% before and after the intervention,respectively;the rates of contacting infested water were 100% and 1.77% preand post-intervention,respectively;the work protective rates increased from zero before the intervention to 100% after the intervention;there was no person infected with schistosome after the intervention. However,in the control group,all the indexes above-mentioned had no significant changes. Conclusion The intervention model"health education + protective skill training",can effectively prevent from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area.