Table 5.
The relation between total knowledge of mothers of children with thalassemia, and their total practice in pre, post and during follow up program implementation phases (n = 106).
| Total practice | Total knowledge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sufficient | Insufficient | Chi-square | ||||
| N | % | N | % | X2 | P-value | |
| Pre | ||||||
| Adequate | 27 | 25.5 | 4 | 3.8 | 74.638 | < 0.001* |
| Inadequate | 3 | 2.8 | 72 | 67.9 | ||
| Post | ||||||
| Adequate | 81 | 76.4 | 4 | 3.8 | 84.850 | < 0.001* |
| Inadequate | 0 | 0.0 | 21 | 19.8 | ||
| Follow up | ||||||
| Adequate | 74 | 69.8 | 7 | 6.6 | 60.537 | < 0.001* |
| Inadequate | 3 | 2.8 | 22 | 20.8 | ||
*Significant relation.