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Abstract Background: According to the UN, and Iran's annual report on global disaster, not only ranked among the world's countries in catastrophe risk , but ranks first of highest number death cases after occurrence earthquake. This study designed the impact of effect educational program on safety behavior of primary school students for earthquake according precede model in Ahvaz city. Method: This study was case-control to evaluate the safety behavior of students was conducted in 2011. 400 primary school students of the two schools by multi- cluster sampling and Simple sampling was selected in Ahwaz. Data were collected from Demographic, knowledge, attitude, and behavior questionnaire, data analysis was conducted with SPSS16 and paired t-tests and chi-square test used for analysis. Results: After education the mean score of predisposing factors(P<0.001), enabling factors(P<0.002), reinforcing factors and self -helping behaviors(P<0.001) increased significantly in the intervention group as compared to the control group respectively. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that precede model was effective educational intervention in increasing self -helping behavior in students for earthquake.

Keywords: Health education, school health, Precede Model- Safety behavior.

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