Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 6

Quality of Life among Caregiver of Children with Thalassemia in Al-Najaf Governorate

University of Kufa, Faculty of Nursing, Iraq

*Corresponding Author: Wameedh Hamid Shaker, University of Kufa, Faculty of Nursing, Iraq, Email: wamithh.alzubeidi@uokufa.edu.iq

Online published on 11 July, 2019.

Abstract

Objective(s): To assess quality of life among child's caregiver with thalassemia. and to find out relationship between socio-demographic data and caregiver of child with quality of life among caregiver. Descriptive study designed was carried out through the present study in order to achieve the early stated objectives for period from February 2017 to March 2017. The study is conducted at AL-Najaf health directorate Al Zahra'a teaching Hospital the governorate of Najaf. Simple purposeful sample of (80) children with thalassemia in the present study all from teaching Hospital. The main findings of the study indicated that through the course of data analysis more than one half of the study sample the most hospitals are distributed in the city center rather than in the city side or in rural areas, the males patients are more attend than the female patients, the study sample responses to overall evaluation for the majority of the family interaction items was unsatisfied, study subject's responses to the correlation ship through all domain the family interaction was which reported a significant cases correlation ship at p-value 0.01 level correlation is significant also parenting and physical material well-being.

Keywords

Caregiver, Children, Quality of life, Thalassemia