107 ﻣﺮﺍﻏﻪ ﺷﻬﺮﺳﺘﺎﻥ ﺩﺭ ﺯﺑﺎﻟﻪ ﺗﻔﻜﻴﻚ ﺩﺭ ﻭﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ ﻋﻤﻠﻜﺮﺩ ﺑﺮ ﺁﻣﻮﺯﺍﻥ ﺩﺍﻧﺶ ﻧﻘﺶ ﺗﺄﺛﻴﺮ/ ﻫﻤﻜﺎﺭﺍﻥ ﻭ ﺍﺳﺘﺒﺼﺎﺭﻯ ﻓﺎﻃﻤﻪ Fatemeh Estebsari Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Shahid Behesht University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Hossein Taghdisiolami Professor, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Zahra Rahimikhalifeh kandi * MSc in Health Educaton, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding Author) Email: tarla1367@yahoo.com Agha Fatemeh Hosseini Lecturer in Biostatstcs, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sci- ences, Tehran, Iran. Received: 11 September2016 Accepted: 31 October 2016 DOI: 10.18869/acadpub.jhl.2.2.107 Journal of Health Literacy Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2017 107 The Eﬀect of Students’Role on Parents’ Performance on Waste Disposal in Maragheh ABSTRACT Background and objectve: Nowadays, recycling has atracted interest as an eﬀectve method in waste management. Teaching recycling to students is of great importance due to the important role this group plays in the partcipaton of parents. This research dealt the eﬀects of recycling educator students on operaton of parents in the separaton of waste. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, a school as the experimental group and a school as the controls group were randomly selected. The parents of stu- dents selected, 100 Person (50 in the experimental group and 50 than the con- trol group) partcipated in the study. Afer the needs assessment by researcher, a questonnaire was developed that included queston on demographic, aware- ness, attude, performance, and partcipaton of the parents. One session of discussion with these parents was held to atract their cooperaton with the students and also Educatonal program for students in the ﬁeld of waste separa- ton was performed. Then The eﬀect of educaton on parents, one month and three months afer interventon in both groups were assessed by questonnaire and data analyzed in spss16 with using descriptve and analytcal statstcs. Results: The results showed that, afer the educatonal interventon, Separa- ton of recyclable waste from non-recyclable, with 58%, was the highest scores. Also, afer the interventon in the experimental group mean on awareness, at- ttude, performance, and partcipaton of the parent’s changes were signiﬁcant (P< 0.001). Conclusion: Findings of this research showed the positve eﬀects of the stu- dents on their parents’ partcipaton in recycling at source. Paper Type: Research Artcle. Keywords: Educaton, Recycle, Students, Parents, Partcipaton  Citaton: Estebsari F, Taghdisiolami MH, Rahimikhalifeh kandi Z, Hosseini A. The Eﬀect of Students’Role on Parents’ Performance on Waste Disposal in Maragheh. Journal of Health Literacy. Summer 2017; 2(2): 107-116.