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Trial reportBioMed research international2019

Effect of Health Education Programme on the Knowledge of and Attitude about Sickle Cell Anaemia among Male Secondary School Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia: Health Policy Implications.

Mohammed Mahmoud Kotb, Mohammed J Almalki, Yasser Hassan, Anwar Al Sharif, Maseer Khan, Kamaludin Sheikh

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Trial report in BioMed research international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohammed Mahmoud KotbFaculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5019-6633
Mohammed J AlmalkiFaculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Yasser HassanFaculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Anwar Al SharifFaculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Maseer KhanFaculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Kamaludin SheikhFaculty of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3926-8034
Jazan University · SAAin Shams University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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Anemia, Sickle CellAttitude to HealthGenetic CounselingHealth PromotionSurveys and QuestionnairesAdolescentHumansMaleSaudi Arabia

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PMID31428653
PMCPMC6683794
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