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Assessment of mother's practices toward their thalassemic children who receiving desferal therapy in thalassemia center in Babylon Maternal and child Hospital | ||
| kufa Journal for Nursing sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 170-177 | ||
| Author | ||
| Afifa Radha Aziz | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Objectives: the study aimed to assess the practice of mothers' toward Desferal therapy, and to find out association between mother's practices with their demographic information. Methodology A descriptive study was conducted at thalassemia center in Babylon Maternal and child Hospital, Data was gathered by using a questionnaire for the period from December 4th to March 26th 2012, data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistical. Results: The results shows that most of mother's age between (30-39) years which present (41.25%), regard to the level of mother's education the highest percentage were read and write( 29.28%), level of education read and write, also the results shows that there is significant relationship between practice of mothers with desferal therapy with age of mothers' and level of education. , but there is no significant relation between practice of mother's with desferal therapy and occupation of mother. Recommendations: the researcher recommended health education should be done throught different mass media to educated the mother's and their families regarding chelating therapy for thalassemia children. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| assessment; mother; thalassaemic children; desferal therapy Babylon Hospital | ||
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