Improving the Awareness of Midwives and Nurses Working in Primary Health Care Services Regarding the Relationship Between Environment and Child Health: A Quasi‐Experimental Research

OBJECTIVE: To define the effect of environmental and child health education given to midwives and nurses working in primary health care services. DESIGN: The quasi-experimental study with the pretest-post-test. SAMPLE: Forty-two midwives/nurses. MEASUREMENTS: The Environmental Health Awareness Form, Knowledge Test, and Training Evaluation Form. INTERVENTION: The face-to-face 2-day training. RESULTS: The participants got an average score of 20.29 ± 5.69 in the pretest and 31.07 ± 0.68 (95% confidence interval difference: lower: -12.61, upper: -8.962) in the post-test. The mean knowledge scores increased significantly (t = 11.949, p < 0.001). The mean score of the evaluation of the training content by the participants was 4.69 ± 0.60 (min: 3, max: 5). CONCLUSIONS: It has been determined that the awareness of midwives and nurses working in primary health care services can be increased by improving their knowledge of the relationship between child health and the environment, and participants have expressed their need for training in this area. It can be recommended that work be initiated to spread these trainings throughout the country through online training within the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Türkiye, and that these programs be organized under the leadership of public health nurses.