Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Carrier XXXX Marriage Volunteer in Prevention of @entity8674 .

@entity1 @entity8674 @entity74 @entity2395
INTRODUCTION: @entity2395 is the most common @entity74 and rising in the world as a health problem. Due to the criticality of this disease, in our country @entity2395 prevention programs are more importance. The aim of this study was investigation of knowledge, attitude and behavior of marrying partners who were @entity2395 genetic carriers in prevention of the birth of the @entity1 with @entity8674 . METHODS: This study was a descriptive-analytic study. Data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire that included 43 items. The content validity of questionnaire was investigated under the supervision of physicians, experts of health education and promotion. Its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's Alpha test. The subjects in the study consisted of 100 marrying partners who were genetic carriers of @entity2395 who referred to Premarital Counseling Center in Iranshahr City. Iranshahr is a a large city of Sistan and Balouchestan Province that located in southeast of Iran. The subjects were selected by convenience non-probability sampling method. Data analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistical tests in SPSS 16.00 and level of significance considered on a<0.05. FINDINGS: The average age of @entity1 and @entity1 that participated in this study was 21.92 and 24 years respectively. 88% of the partners had familial relationships. The educational level of most of the @entity1 (34%) was diploma and of @entity1 (44%) was pre-diploma. The research findings showed that 7% and 62% of the subjects had poor and mediocre levels of knowledge respectively. Also results showed that only 13% of them had a satisfactory behavior and educational status had a positive correlation with knowledge, behavior, perceived susceptibility and perceived severity (P<0.05). As well there was a significant statistical relationship between gender and familial relationship, and the perceived barriers of @entity1 . (p=0.01). The survey viewpoint of @entity1 showed that they believed knowledge increasing (40%), genetic counseling (33%) and premarital screening (27%) were the most important strategies for prevention of @entity2395 . CONCLUSION: The perceived barriers were the strongest predictors for preventive behaviors of incidence of @entity8674 in marrying partners, therefor educational interventions should focused on perceived barriers removing in Volunteer marrying partners.
