Introduction: infection is widespread and harmful, rendering its eradication a serious public health problem. Undergraduate students' general understanding of infection is relatively poor. This was a second-phase research study to evaluate the efficacy of an educational intervention in raising awareness among university students.
Methods: A quasi-experimental approach was employed, with 108 undergraduate students at King Saud University as participants. First, during the October 2021 academic year, data were gathered using a validated survey. The survey was divided into sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge. Second, we assessed the effectiveness of an educational intervention to increase university students' awareness of the topic.
Results: Before the intervention, the percentage of students that had good (9.3%), fair (28.7%) and poor (62%) knowledge of infection changed to 55.6%, 41.7%, and 2.8% respectively. There was a significant increase in overall and domain-wise mean knowledge score after the educational intervention ( = 0.001). The pretest knowledge was independent of all socio-demographic variables except "whether or not they had heard about infection" (= 8.666, = 0.013).
Conclusion: Educational intervention may help increase students' awareness of infections.
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