In recent decades, the number of children in nurseries has increased
significantly throughout the world, increasing their exposure to
communicable diseases, so this analytical survey study aimed to
develop standards for control of communicable dis
eases in nurseries
at Lattakia and to assess the procedures and practices applied to
control these diseases, two groups of elements were used: the first
group included thirty experts from different fields and specialties as
a committee of arbitrators for the initial standards and the second
included 20 nurseries selected from 80 nurseries located in Lattakia
using cluster random sampling method, two tools were developed:
to initial standards and to assess the procedures and practices
applied to control of communicable diseases.