Faculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
Biomed Res Int. 2019 Jul 25;2019:9653092. doi: 10.1155/2019/9653092. eCollection 2019.
This study was conducted to develop an instructional programme on sickle cell anaemia (SCA) and test the effect of the programme on the secondary school students' knowledge of and attitude towards sickle cell anaemia in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia. A pretest/posttest one-arm interventional study was conducted at the Faculty of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, with a convenience sample of 120 male students. The intervention consisted of two interactive sessions about sickle cell anaemia and premarital screening. The mean student knowledge score was 6.04 ± 3.02 on the pretest, which improved to 10.73 ± 3.47 on the posttest, with a statistically significant difference (t = 15.2, p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in the responses pertaining to attitude before and after the health education intervention. The policy implications of these findings are discussed to improve the performance of the Saudi healthcare system in dealing with this costly inherited disease.
本研究旨在制定一项关于镰状细胞贫血症（SCA）的教学计划，并测试该计划对沙特阿拉伯吉赞地区中学生对镰状细胞贫血症的知识和态度的影响。在吉赞大学公共卫生和热带医学学院，采用方便抽样法对 120 名男性学生进行了一项前测后测单臂干预研究。干预措施包括两次关于镰状细胞贫血症和婚前筛查的互动课程。学生的知识得分从预测试的 6.04 ± 3.02 提高到后测试的 10.73 ± 3.47，有统计学显著差异（t = 15.2，p < 0.001）。健康教育干预前后对态度的反应没有显著差异。讨论了这些发现对改善沙特医疗保健系统处理这种昂贵遗传性疾病的表现的政策影响。
