Educational Skills Evaluation among Health Care Providers (Behvarzan) in Educating of Clients Who Referred to the Health Care Homes
<p><strong>INTRODUCTION: </strong>Health care providers (Behvarzan) are the primary health care givers and their educational skills are an important factor to offer safe health care and promote the public health. So that this study was conducted to evaluate the educational skills among health care providers in educating the referrals to health homes.</p><p><strong>METHODS: </strong>This cross-sectional was conducted in health homes of Esfarayen health care network in 2015. By the method of enumeration 81 health care providers were included to the study. Data was collected by the questionnaire of evaluating the educational skills of Behvarz(s) designed by the researcher. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and analytical tests such as Pearson's correlation, independent T-test and ANOVA by the SPSS v.20.</p><p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>The results of this study had shown that 45.7% of subjects had good educational skills. Also the statistical calculation showed a significant difference between some variables such as internet usage (p=0.008) and internet usage in workplace (p=0.001) with Behvarz(s) educational skills.</p><p><strong>CONCLUSION: </strong>The educational skills of Behvarz(s) working in health homes was satisfactory. A significant relation was found between educational skills and some other factors. So then planning for upgrading the educational skills of Behvarz(s) and conducting much more studies to find effective factors on educational skills is recommended.</p>