Effectiveness of Hemophilia Educational Program on Parents' Knowledge of Children with Hemophilia

Background: Mothers and fathers mentioned difficulty in identifying the proper structure of remedy for their child, anxiousness about illness of blood products, fear of the achievable long-term aspect consequences of prophylaxis, and a desire to avoid any unnecessary medications. It is clear from what has been noted above that mother appreciably want a health care program to help their hemophilic young people to limit the complications and bleeding episodes as much as viable so that their teenagers can live close to everyday life. Objective(s): The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of hemophilia educational program on parents' knowledge of children with Hemophilia, And To find the relationship between the educational program and the demographic information of the parents (age, gender and educational level) Method: A quasi-experimental design (Study and control group) is carried out through the use of questionnaire format for nonprobability (purposive) sample of (40) patients who their children have hemophilia and treat in Blood Disease center in - AL_ Nasiriya City. Results: The results showed that was statistically significance differences between two periods ( pre and post-tests) of study sample in all items of the Knowledge of Parents information for children with hemophilia of the Study Sample .This reflects that the Parents knowledge was affected by educational program when analyzed by (t-test). Conclusion: The study concluded that the educational program was effective to improve to the participation parents for children with hemophilia. Recommendations: Continuous educational program to health team to increase parent' knowledge about enhance self-care for patients with hemophilia. It is recommended to the Mistry of Health to increase educational program to patient with hemophilia and very important implication.