The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of health education program on preventive behaviors of head lice infestation among girls in primary school at Eyvan city in 2016. In the city of Eyvan, with regard to the equality of the conditions, among the 6 primary school girls, two schools were selected. In the next step, the Esmat School (with 95 female students from the fourth and fifth grade students) was selected as the case group and the Zohreh Sadeghpour School (with 62 female students from the fourth and fifth grade students) were selected as the control group. Therefore, the allocation of samples to groups was random, because the assignment of schools to case and control groups was done randomly. Inclusion criteria: Student and parent's informed consent; education at the fourth and fifth grades. Exclusion criterion: Skin and fungal diseases. In this study, educational intervention was designed based on pre-test data in the case group.
Educational intervention was designed based on pre-test data in the intervention group. Educational intervention was conducted in five sessions and each session lasted 30 minutes. The contents of the training included lice characteristics, place of residence, transmission pathway, symptoms and complications and prevention and treatment methods prepared in the form of handbook, posters and educational pamphlets and provided to health instructor, parents and students. Some methods such as giving lecture, face to face training and question and answer were used in educational sessions.
One month after the intervention, students were evaluated for the second time. Primary outcomes: perceived susceptibility; perceived severity; perceived barriers; perceived benefits and self-efficacy. Secondary outcomes: taking preventive behaviors.