Objective(s): The present study aims at assessing the prevalence of smoking among health workers in Baghdad Teaching Hospital and to find out the effectiveness of instructional booklet concerning risk of smoking on health workers′ knowledge in hospital.
Methodology: A pre-experimental design study was conducted from 1st of October 2019 to 17th of March 2020. A non-probability sample consists of (500) participant (343 non-smokers and 157 smokers) from (1500) health workers in Baghdad Teaching Hospital, they included the physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, Laboratory Technicians, Medical Assistants. A questionnaire is constructed to evaluate the effectiveness of instructional booklet on health workers’ knowledge about risks of smoking which consists of (33) items. Reliability of the questionnaire is determined through the use of internal consistency reliability and the computation of Cronbach Alpha Correlation Coefficient which is equal to (0.905) and the content validity of the questionnaire is determined through a panel of experts.
Results: The results of the study show that there is improvement of smokers’ knowledge concerning the effect of smoking on personal health status which is (50.9%), high percent of them not have enough knowledge at pretest while the improved their knowledge at posttest to (81.6%), and their knowledge about risk of smoking on hospital environment is improved from (51.6%) at pretest to (86.38%) at posttest, and there is a highly significant between the effectiveness of the instructional booklet and health workers’ knowledge about the risk of smoking on personal health at P ≤ 0.05 level.
Recommendations: The study recommends that extensive and comprehensive studies, at the national level, could be conducted to improve the knowledge of health workers regarding the risks of smoking to human health and environment, and work to apply the penal code to the smokers inside hospitals and health institutions.
Toni Morrison (1931-), the first African-American winner of Noble Prize in literature (1993) and the winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, regards herself as the historian of African-American people. She does not think of her writings as literature but as a sacred book dedicated to explore the interior lives of blacks. She creates history by disregarding European standards and the white man's view of African- Americans. She adopts her people's point of view, invests their heritage, voices their pains and uses their vernacular. She even writes to a black audience. She establishes the black novel by depicting the blackness of American literature. In choos
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إدارة المخاطر في الوحدات الإقتصادية الصناعية بإستعمال مخطط باريتو
This research involves the civilized vision of the trends and approaches of philosophical thought in the Islamic Orient, whose objectives were to show Islamic philosophy and the pioneers of thought in it and the most important products that crystallized after its emergence in the Islamic world
The words in the Holy Qur’an are distinguished by the
accuracy of expression, their elegance, the lightness of their
performance, the harmony of their timbre, as well as the ease of
their pronunciation. We find the coarse words in which the
movement of sounds and the hesitation of the soul are mixed, as
it was distinguished by the abundance of its words indicating the
same meaning without a phenomenon that the reader or the
listener notices
this research talks about the weakness that had happened in the construction of the sentences which effected on the syntactic meaning . it considers an important problems faced the languages .
Using religious characters which come from religion is a significant means that poets applied in their texts. The Iraqi poet Adib Kamal Aldin applied religious characters as an active means helping the theme of the text and playing a great role in expanding the meanings and their implications in the text.
المنازعات والحروب الاهلية في العالم الثالث نموذجاً الصومال وافغانستان
لقد أرسى الفنان العراقي القديم، بلا ريب، الأسس الأولى للفنون فكانت وما زالت أعماله مصدرا مهما للمدارس الفنية كافة منذ العصور التاريخية وما قبلها، وداولتها الحضارات المتعاقبة في أرضه وخارجها حتى أصبح فن الرافدين يطبع كثيرا من خصائصه وسماته على تلك الحضارات. وعندما بزغ نور الإسلام السرمدي وبدد