The finding of the present study showed
that the majority of mothers’ age ranged
from (31-39) years old in the study group,
while (40-49) years old in the control group.
They were illiterate and they were housewives,
also fathers’ educational levels were
classified as illiterate and most of them
were unemployed. These results were
similar to the study of Al-Mosowi 9 which
showed that the majority of the mothers
who participated in her study were unable
to read and they were housewives. The
results of this study provided the evidences
that the mothers, who were selected for the
study, were considered as appropriate for
the educational programme as they had
low educational level and were housewives.Dehkordi
and Heydarnejad 10 stated
that the few studies have been devoted to
assess the impact of educational programmes.
In addition, little thought was
given to the effects of these prgramms on
parents of children with Thalassaemia.
Advances in the management of this
disease may result in longer life expectancy
and improved quality of life. Parents’
education can have a significant role in
supporting patients who suffers from this
disease. nurses can help to increase
knowledge of families about children with
this disorder. regarding demographic characteristics
among both groups, the result
revealed that most of children’s aged between
(3-6) years old, more than half of
them were males in both groups and the
highest percentage of abscentism were ≥ 2
days in the study group and 1 day in the
control group. these results were supported
by Al-Mosowi 9
and Al-attar and Shekha 11
who showed that most of the thalassaemic
children in the study and control groups
were males and 6 years old. regarding
information sources in relation to Desferal
Therapy (DT), we observed that the prominent
source of information was doctors and
nurses; this result agreed with the result of
Mahanil 12 who reported that the majority of
thalassaemia parents take information
about Thalassaemia from doctors and
nurses. there were no significant differences
in relation to knowledge and practices
between the study and control groups
on pre-test assessments. The results indicated
that the mothers have limited knowledge
and practices regarding Desferal
Therapy.Dhamcharee 13 documented that
the main problems in genetic counseling
for Thalassaemia in Thailand were the followings;
Thalassaemic problems not visible
to the administrators, unorganized teamwork
and services, lack of knowledge,
inadequate numbers of counselors, lack of
Thalassaemia support group, and inadequate
researches in Thalassaemia prevention
and control. after implementing of
educational programme of Desferal Therapy
on the study group, highly significant
differences were revealed between the
study and control groups with regard to
knowledge and practices of the mothers.
The findings of the present study is consistent
with Al-Mosowi 9 who revealed that
there were significant differences between
the study and control groups regarding
knowledge and practices on Thalassaemia
on post test assessments. in the present
study, the researcher tried to introduce the
information and the items of the educational
programs in a simple, clear language
using visual aids for better understandability
targeting all mothers’ educational levels.
The present study showed that there was
high significant differences between knowledge
and practices, after the application of
the educational programme on post-test
assessment with relative comparison to pre
-test values in the study group. This finding
was supported by Al-Mosowi 9 who indicated
that there were significant differences
between pre and post tests relative
to the mothers’ knowledge and practices in
the study group. There were no significant
differences between knowledge and
practices relative to the control group
during pre and post-test.