Assessment of mother's practices toward their thalassemic children who receiving desferal therapy in thalassemia center in Babylon Maternal and child Hospital

Abstract

 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's practices, thalassaemic children, desferal therapy Babylon Hospital