<![CDATA[The increasing number of older adults requires the readiness of primary health care services to provide comprehensive, age-friendly, and needs-based care for older adults. Primary health care workers play an important role in elderly care because they are at the frontline of promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative services. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of geriatric training on primary health care workers’ knowledge of elderly care and to describe participants’ attitude-behavior during the training. This study used a quantitative approach with a pre-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of the study were 32 primary health care workers who participated in the Elderly and Geriatric Health Care Training. The data analyzed included participants’ pre-test scores, post-test scores, and attitude-behavior assessments. Data analysis was conducted descriptively and inferentially using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test because the data were not normally distributed. The results showed that the participants’ mean pre-test score was 62.50 and increased to 84.22 in the post-test. The Wilcoxon test showed a significant difference between pre-test and post-test scores, with p < 0.001. The mean N-Gain score was 0.55, which falls into the moderate category. Participants’ attitude-behavior scores were also in the high category, with a mean score of 89.13. Thus, geriatric training was effective in improving primary health care workers’ knowledge of elderly care, while participants’ attitude-behavior showed a good profile during the training.]]>
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