Effectiveness of Training Programs for Nurses’ Personal Attitudes towards Communicable Diseases

Background: communicable disease is an illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxic product that is transmitted from an infected person, animal or inanimate source to a susceptible host. To determine the influence of training on nurses' attitudes towards infection prevention and control measures

Methodology: Quasi-experimental design through using (Non probability) Purposive Sampling was conducted to determine effectiveness of training program for nurses’ personal attitudes towered communicable diseases. design using 60 nurses from 8 Mosul hospitals. Data for the current study was collected using a questionnaire form to gauge nurses’ personal attitudes between September20, 2024, and jan21, 2025. A questionnaire with two axes was used to gather data for this study (personal attitudes). The first axis describes the demographics of the nurses, including “age, sex, education level, years of service, workplace, number of training courses” they have taken on communicable diseases. The second axis consists of six questions about nurses’ personal attitudes towered communicable diseases. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software for Windows (Version 26) is used to analyze data. Various methods are used to analyze the data.

Results: The current study demonstrated the efficacy of training program for nurses’ personal attitudes towered communicable diseases by comparing the results of three knowledge tests in four parts: pre-test = poor, post-test 1 = good, and post-test 2 = good.

Conclusion: The implementation of training program has improved the nurses’ personal attitudes of all nurses in the study group with regard to communicable diseases.