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- Title
Impact of educational intervention on mothers of infants with iron-deficiency anemia.
- Authors
Alhaija, Rania Abu; Hasab, Ali Abdel Halim; El-Nimr, Nessrin Ahmed; Tayel, Dalia Ibrahim
- Abstract
This intervention study aimed to assess mothers' knowledge of iron-deficiency anemia (IDA). It also measured the impact of a health education program on their level of knowledge and their infants' IDA rates in rural areas of Nablus Governorate. Using a randomized pretest–posttest control group design, the efficacy of 3 months' education program was examined against control group. Assessments were made at baseline and after 3 months of conducting the intervention. A structured interviewing questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge about IDA, and blood samples were collected from infants in both groups. Only 1.9% of mothers in the intervention group and 3.5% of mothers in the control group had good level of knowledge at baseline. After the educational intervention, a significant statistical difference was observed in the mean total knowledge score between the intervention and control groups (33.68 + 5.366 versus 26.12 + 5.243), and the intervention group was seven times more likely to have good knowledge (relative risk = 7.332). Regarding IDA rate, there was a decrease in the infants with IDA in the intervention group (relative risk = 0.671) compared to infants in the control group. The planned health education program was effective in improving mothers' knowledge and reducing the risk of IDA among their infants.
- Subjects
PALESTINE; MIDDLE East; EDUCATION of mothers; IRON deficiency anemia; HEALTH literacy; T-test (Statistics); HEMOGLOBINS; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; STATISTICAL sampling; INTERVIEWING; QUESTIONNAIRES; LOGISTIC regression analysis; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; MOTHER-infant relationship; CONTROL groups; PRE-tests &; post-tests; RURAL conditions; RESEARCH methodology; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; COMPARATIVE studies; NUTRITION education
- Publication
Health Education Research, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 3, p254
- ISSN
0268-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/her/cyae004