Table 7.
The relation between total practice 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 practice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adequate | Inadequate | Chi-square | ||||
| N | % | N | % | X2 | P-value | |
| Pre | ||||||
| Good | 18 | 17.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 67.924 | < 0.001* |
| Average | 13 | 12.3 | 20 | 18.9 | ||
| Poor | 0 | 0.0 | 55 | 51.9 | ||
| Post | ||||||
| Good | 82 | 77.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 90.448 | < 0.001* |
| Average | 3 | 2.8 | 14 | 13.2 | ||
| Poor | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 6.6 | ||
| Follow up | ||||||
| Good | 75 | 70.8 | 3 | 2.8 | 67.216 | < 0.001* |
| Average | 6 | 5.7 | 13 | 12.3 | ||
| Poor | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 8.5 | ||
*Significant relation.