Assessment of Knowledge of Mothers Toward Caring of their School Age Children with Thalassemia at Maternal and Child Babylon Teaching Hospital A-Hassan Abdulmahdi* Paediatric and Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing University of Babylon, Iraq *Corresponding author: Abdulmahdi A-Hassan Paediatric and Mental Health Nursing, College of nursing university of Babylon, Iraq
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract A descriptive study that aim to assess the knowledge of mothers toward Thalassemia, data collected in a Virtual Sample in maternal and child Babylon teaching hospital by questionnaire from data analysis by frequency and percentage. Descriptive study, was carried out at maternal and child Babylon teaching hospital from 25/December/2017 to 1/April/2018. Anon-probability sample, was selected from hospital in pediatric wards for mothers attending with their children in hospital and mother who attending emergency room, the virtual sample consisted of (100) mothers, the collection was carried out at maternal and child Babylon hospital. Validity of the study instrument was determined initially through the panel of experts of different specialties related to the field of the present study, the expert's response were positive toward the study questionnaire, change and modification were made in respect to expert's suggestions and recommendation. The result show that (51%) of mothers their age between (31–40) years and (24%) of mothers their level of education, read and write, also the result shows that (77%) of mothers not work. The majority of mothers (91%) monitor the color face of the child. Top Keywords Mothers, Knowledge, Children, Thalassemia. Top |