The Role of Hygiene Education for Specialists in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
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education, specialists, hygiene, Covid-19, pandemicAbstract
Aim of research: Starting from the scientifically proven fact that hygiene measures are prophylactic factors in transmitting covid-19 infection, we wanted to improve the level of theoretical and practical knowledge of future specialists in social and medical sciences, to prevent pandemics. In this regard, a workshop was organized at the beginning of March 2020, in the context of the International Day of Social Work.
The workshop?s elements of novelty could be seed in the rapid thematic adoption of education for individual and community health, in the context of Covid-19, as well as in its particular organizational elements, specific to the epidemiological context in which it was carried out. It aimed to raise awareness of the importance of specialists? hygiene, in the process of stopping the pandemic.
The research method is empirical, based on a qualitative thematic analysis. Continuous professional education was achieved through research instruments: practical experimental case study, observation and participation in the workshop, under the supervision of a trainer.
The research sample consists of a group of over 30 health specialists and students from different social and medical specialities.
Research results: The opinion of the specialists from the study group, who participated in the demonstration workshop, shows that practical learning through exemplification and exercises, based on previously known theoretical notions, form and strengthen professional skills.
Conclusions: This report was written in the scientific perspective of professional education classes, which improve specialists? awareness of the role of proper personal hygiene in an epidemic context.
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