Effectiveness of Education Program upon Patient's Practices Toward Hemophilia among more than Fourteen Years Old in Thi-Qar Heredity Center Abdulretha Ali1,*, Jehad Salma Khadom2, Hussen Kahtan Hadi2 1Institute Thi-Qar High Health, Iraq 2University of Babylon, Iraq *Corresponding author: Ali Abdulretha. Institute Thi-Qar high health, Iraq
Online published on 17 July, 2019. Abstract The present quasi-experimental study aimed to determine the Effectiveness of Education Program upon Patient's Practices toward Hemophilia among more than Fourteen Years Old in Thi-Qar Heredity Center. The program was designed through assessment of patients needs relative to their practices toward self care management and implemented through a series of educational sessions. The study was conducted in Thi-Qar Heredity Center in Al-Nasiriyah City from the 1st of Des 2017 to 20th of Oct 2018. The sample was comprised of (50) hemophilia patients among more than fourteen years old and divided equally into study and control groups. Data was collected through the use of hemophilia patients practices tests which were developed for the purpose of the study, which consists of three parts: The first part is related to the demographic characteristics like patients’ age, level of education, marital status, type of parents marriage relationship, residential area, type and severity of hemophilia; The second part consists of patients’ practices items related to the patient's self care management practices (28) items related to hemophilia patient's self care management was also developed for the determination of the characteristics of the subject. Top Keywords Effectiveness, Education Program, Hemophilia. Top |