Knowledge and Practice of Mothers’ Children with Mediterranean Fever among Primary School Age in Beni-Suef City

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1 B.Sc. Nursing Science Beni Suef University

2 Assist Professor of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing / Beni-Suef University

3 Assistant Professor of internal Medicine, Beni-Suef University

4 Assist Professor of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing / Beni-Suef University.

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Familial Mediterranean Fever is an auto inflammatory genetic disorder . The aim of the study was to assess the Knowledge and practices of mothers’ children with FMF among primary school age in Beni-suef City. Design : A descriptive exploratory . Setting: This study was carried out in an outpatient pediatric and immunity clinic at Beni Suef University Hospital, Beni-Suef Governorate, Egypt. Sample: 80 mothers’ children with FMF among primary school age. Tools: one tool was used, A structured interview questionnaire sheet, included four parts. Part I: Socio-demographic characteristics of children with FMF and their mothers Part II: assess mothers’ Knowledge regarding Mediterranean fever. Part III: assess mothers’ Practices regarding FMF. Results: This study showed 76.3% of the studied mothers had a correct answer regarding that FMF gets worse if colchicine isn't used regularly. 61.2% of the studied mothers had poor Knowledge regarding FMF. 46.3% of the studied mothers had a high satisfactory Practices toward caring for their children. Conclusion: Two-thirds of the studied mothers had poor Knowledge regarding FMF among primary school age. Also there was no statistically significant relation between the studied mothers' total FMF Knowledge score, and their age, marital status, educational level, mother occupation, family income, and residence p value was > 0.05. Recommendation: Health educational program and further studies should be developed and implemented for mothers to educate them about FMF with the most current information and practices about the disease, booklets should be available and distributed to all mothers about the disease and health-related practices.

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