Table 4.
High school students’ attitudes towards premarital screening by sociodemographic characteristics (N = 1,541)
| Variables* | Agreed that carrying out PMS is important | Agreed with making PMS mandatory | Agreed with putting laws and regulations in place to stop marriage in case of positive PMS results | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | P value | n (%) | P value | n (%) | P value | |
| Participants who agreed with variable | 1,347 (87.4) | - | 852 (55.3) | - | 590 (38.3) | - |
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 723 (88.9) | 0.016 | 438 (51.3) | 0.002 | 302 (35.4) | 0.010 |
| Female | 624 (92.7) | 414 (60.2) | 288 (41.9) | |||
| Consanguineous parents | ||||||
| Yes | 551 (92.4) | 0.245 | 357 (57) | 0.018 | 266 (42.5) | 0.020 |
| No | 697 (90.5) | 435 (55.1) | 284 (35.9) | |||
| Personal history of hereditary disease | ||||||
| Yes | 111 (94.9) | 0.127 | 74 (58.7) | 0.391 | 41 (32.5) | 0.113 |
| No | 1,051 (90.1) | 671 (55.7) | 488 (40.5) | |||
| Family history of hereditary disease | ||||||
| Yes | 405 (94.2) | 0.001 | 257 (57.9) | 0.732 | 164 (36.9) | 0.336 |
| No | 604 (87.7) | 399 (55.6) | 296 (41.3) | |||
*
Missing data were not included in the statistical analysis.