TY - JOUR T1 - Determining the educational effectiveness on the women health volunteers’ empowerment and its influential factors of the West of Tehran Health Center- 1388 TT - بررسی تاثیر آموزش بر توانمند سازی رابطین بهداشت مر ا کز بهداشت غرب تهران و عوامل موثر بر آن در سال 1388 JF - IOH JO - IOH VL - 8 IS - 2 UR - http://ioh.iums.ac.ir/article-1-503-en.html Y1 - 2011 SP - 13 EP - 0 KW - education ٬empowerment KW - women health volunteers ٬ self – confidence KW - self-esteem ٬self-efficacy ٬control ٬problem solving N2 -     Background and aims     Considering the central role of staff empowerment on the health programs also importance of the health volunteers as a bridge between to community health care system increasing of these volunteers competence in order to promote public health is more important. So, this research has on the aim of determining the educational effectiveness on the women health volunteers’ empowerment and its influential factors of the West of Tehran Health Center.     Material and Methods   This research was a qui-experimental case control study with pre-post test. The population of the study was all the women health volunteers in the West of Tehran Health Center on 20 10 . One hundred health volunteers as an experimental and control group were randomly selected. This one hundred was divided on two 50 as experimental and control group.   The information was gathered via the questionnaire including demographic information and women health volunteers’ empowerment questions, before and 1/5 month after of the educational intervention. (Via role playing, demonstration, discussion and lectures) SPSS was used for analysis of data and Mann-Whitney, correlation coefficient and chi square test were applied for analysis.   Results   The results indicated a significant correlation between age and self-confidence (r =0/259) and problem solving skills (r =0/269, p M3 ER -