Résumé
Introduction: Beta-thalessemia is a chronic disease that can cause psychosocial problems in patients and their sibling. The purpose of this study was to determine psychosocial problems of thalassemic children and their sibling and compare them with control group
Methods: This is a discriptive commparative study that conducted by structrual interview and PSC check list. The sample size was 572 children that 167 of them were thalassemic children between 4 to 16 years Old, and 166 of their sibling without chronic diseases in same age group and 239 of healthy children in similar age as compare group. The collected data were analysized with descreptive and analytic Ststistics by X[2], ANOVA and t-test
Results: Among all children, 20.4% of thalassemic, 12% of their healthy sibling and 7.9% of healthy children had psychosocial problems and these difference were significant
Conclusion: Whether thalassemic children have psychosocial problems their sibling who live with them have more psychosocial problems than healthy children So due to this finding it is better in care plans to pay special attention to the sibling of thalesmic patients
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Beta thalassemia is one of the most important disorders in our country. General awareness is the most preventive step. To evaluate the effect of an educational session containing lectures, booklets and videotape on the knowledge of high school students. A total number of 405 high school students [females [67.2%] and males [32.8%]] were randomly selected and asked to complete a questionnaire before and two weeks after an educational session. There was a significant difference between the scores of students in pre and post test [2.42 VS. 2.56, P<0.05]. A short time education on thalassemia can significantly improve students' thalassemia awareness and this improvement can be effective in preventing the birth of thalassemic children. Formal thalassemia education of students is recommended