Table 6.
The relation between total knowledge of mothers of children with thalassemia, and their total health belief in pre, post and during follow up program implementation phases (n = 106).
| Total health beliefs | Total knowledge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sufficient | Insufficient | Chi-square | ||||
| N | % | N | % | X2 | P-value | |
| Pre | ||||||
| Good | 18 | 17.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 68.367 | < 0.001* |
| Average | 12 | 11.3 | 21 | 19.8 | ||
| Poor | 0 | 0.0 | 55 | 51.9 | ||
| Post | ||||||
| Good | 78 | 73.6 | 4 | 3.8 | 71.180 | < 0.001* |
| Average | 3 | 2.8 | 14 | 13.2 | ||
| Poor | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 6.6 | ||
| Follow up | ||||||
| Good | 72 | 67.9 | 6 | 5.7 | 59.593 | < 0.001* |
| Average | 5 | 4.7 | 14 | 13.2 | ||
| Poor | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 8.5 | ||
*Significant relation.