Background: Hospital housekeepers are persons employed by hospital to manage sanitary works, by virtue of their job, can get blood borne diseasesfrom patient’s fomite, contaminated environment, patient’s specimens, and by handling infected waste either by direct or indirect contact. The most common examples of these diseases are human immune deficiency virus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Aim of the study: wasto evaluate the effectiveness of health education program on hospital housekeepers. Material and Methods: The study was conducted in Public hospitals Khartoum, Khartoum Bahri and Omdurman.Quasi-experimental design was used. Ninety two (92) hospital housekeepers enrolled and received the health education intervention program, they were selected by systematic simple random sampling technique probability proportional to size.Data collection: pretest was done by using structured interview questionnaire, attitude scale and observation check list. Then Health education program was conducted, practicing of preventive measure of blood borne infection took place one month for each group in the three hospitals. Post test data was conducted after three months using the same tools,Follow up test was conducted after another three months using the sametools. Results: The mean score of knowledge of participants as definition, types of blood borne infection, mode of transmission before education program was 5.78, after education program was 7.10 and in follow up phase was 7.26 (P value=.001). The mean score of attitude of participants towards working with infected patients were increased significantly after education program from 9.97 to 12.04 and 12.20 in follow up phase respectively (P value =.001) . Practice as wearing and removing gloves during and after work, hand washing, dealing with contaminated and sharp objects and medical waste before education program were 40.4 and after education program and follow up increased to 46.00 and 47.10 respectively (P value = .001). Conclusion: The Health Education Program was effective in improving knowledge, attitude and Practice. Recommendation: guidelines and clear policy for medical waste management system. Medical check for hospital housekeeping before recruitment And Vaccination for Hepatitis for –ve hepatitis.
