Objective(s): The present study aims at assessing the prevalence of smoking among health workers in Baghdad Teaching Hospital and to find out the effectiveness of instructional booklet concerning risk of smoking on health workers′ knowledge in hospital.
Methodology: A pre-experimental design study was conducted from 1st of October 2019 to 17th of March 2020. A non-probability sample consists of (500) participant (343 non-smokers and 157 smokers) from (1500) health workers in Baghdad Teaching Hospital, they included the physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, Laboratory Technicians, Medical Assistants. A questionnaire is constructed to evaluate the effectiveness of instructional booklet on health workers’ knowledge about risks of smoking which consists of (33) items. Reliability of the questionnaire is determined through the use of internal consistency reliability and the computation of Cronbach Alpha Correlation Coefficient which is equal to (0.905) and the content validity of the questionnaire is determined through a panel of experts.
Results: The results of the study show that there is improvement of smokers’ knowledge concerning the effect of smoking on personal health status which is (50.9%), high percent of them not have enough knowledge at pretest while the improved their knowledge at posttest to (81.6%), and their knowledge about risk of smoking on hospital environment is improved from (51.6%) at pretest to (86.38%) at posttest, and there is a highly significant between the effectiveness of the instructional booklet and health workers’ knowledge about the risk of smoking on personal health at P ≤ 0.05 level.
Recommendations: The study recommends that extensive and comprehensive studies, at the national level, could be conducted to improve the knowledge of health workers regarding the risks of smoking to human health and environment, and work to apply the penal code to the smokers inside hospitals and health institutions.
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المبادئ العامة للقانون ودرها في اطار التجارة الدولية
يُعنى هذا البحث بمهارة د راسة وكتابة الهمزة التي تعدّ , برغم كثرة محاولات تيسيرها من
أعقد المسائل المتعمقة بقواعد الإملاء في الكتابة العربية
دور شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي في ثورات الربيع العربي
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للشعب العربي ولع عميق و ميل شديد إلى الأسفار و الإنتقال من بلد إلى آخر ، لا تثنيهم عن ذلك صحارى واسعة و لابحار شاسعة أو مشاق عنيفة . و قد توارثوا هذا الميل منذ زمن قديم فأوغلوا في قارة آسيا و أفريقيا و أوربا وغيرها . و شقت سفنهم الخليج العربي و المحيط الهندي و البحر المتوسط و بحار اخرى . و لعل هذا الميل إلى الأسفار و الولع بالاغتراب قد عبًر عن نفسه بصورة أدبية في قصص السندباد و بصورة فعلية برحلة إبن جبير و رحلة إبن
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الامن الجماعي في اسيا .. بقلم : لونيك فرو وار
Each of the languages possesses a set of phenomena that researchers in its sciences should stop at to explain the secrets of this language, including the phenomenon of idiomatic expression. Perhaps this phenomenon may constitute an obstacle to non-native speakers of the language or even the native speakers themselves. The Arabic language is full of these expressions, Which needs us to dedicate its own studies to it so that we can collect it in a dictionary that includes and collects it with explanation and interpretation of its semantics
