Pattern of congenital heart disease (CHD)‎ among children under five years referred to Charitable Heart Fondation at Hadhramout Governorate, Yemen ; 2010-2011

Abstract EN

Background: Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborns and it is a leading cause of death during the first year of life with a prevalence of 1% in live births.

Aim: To determine the pattern of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) among Children under Five Years according to the registry of Charitable Heart Foundation in Hadhramout, Yemen; 2010 ~ 2011.

Subject and method: A descriptive retrospective design was used with purposive sampling.

The study sample included130 live birth children registered in charitable heart foundation in Hadhramout governorate were screened and investigated for CHD from September 2010 ~ Sep 2011.

Two types of tools were used for data collection: a questionnaire sheet was designed for data collection from patient records in charitable heart foundation, the second tool that performed by telephone interview with parents of the patients to understand the demographic factors such as age, sex, type of CHD and association with endogamy between parent, and relation with presence of CHD in their child.

Result: The results of the present study revealed that more than half of the studied sample (54.6%) was from the urban area and the prevalence of CHD among females was (50.8 %) compared to (49.2 %) among the males and VSD was the commonest lesion (30.8 %) among the studied sample followed by ASD and PDA (15.4 % and 14.6 %) respectively.

The majority of children was affected by VSD, in the males (31.3 %) compared to (30.1%) in the females.

The endogamy between parent and relation with presence of disease were positive with (42.3 %) of the study sample and negative with (57.7%) of them.

Recommendations: Finding of this work highlight the need for increasing awareness of family and community in Hadhramout about CHD through health education programs which to provide them with information about CHD, types, early discover of the disease, and pre-marital counseling should be emphasized among susceptible families.