Assessment of mother's practices toward their thalassemic children who receiving desferal therapy in Thalassemia cCenter in Babylon Maternal and child hospital

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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.