Impact of education program upon mother's knowledge and practices of haemophilic children type A

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Background and objectives : world Health Organization and Haemophilia Foundation Australia 2000 [1] reported that the identification of patients with haemophilia remains a major problem, even in countries which have made a great efforts to establish haemophilia care facilities.

Only 10-60 % of expected number of patients has those facilities and 50 % of problems seen in people with haemophilia could be avoided simply by education [2].

Subjects and methods: Quasi experimental study was carried out at Hereditary Bleeding Diseases center in AL-Mansur Pediatric Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, to identify the impact of education program upon knowledge and practices of Haemophilic children type A, Seventy mothers having haemophilia A children were included in this study and divided into study and control groups..

Results : the results revealed that mothers of the study group had benefit from the implementation of educational program, their knowledge and practices were adequately improved and developed.

Conclusion : the study concluded that the educational program could be considered as a need for all mothers having hemophilic child.