آگاهی مادران از علائم، پیشگیری، مراقبتهای درمانی و عوارض گلودرد چرکی کودکان

ABSTRACT Pharyngitis is one of the most common bacterial diseases. Its dangerous complications such as rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis increase the importance of diagnosis and treatment. In order to determine mothers knowledge about symptoms, prevention, therapeutic care and complications of pharyngitis, this survey was carried out on 508 urban and 80 rural mothers in Kerman in summer 1997. The sampling method was arandomized, weighted and stratified one. Mean age of urban mothers was 29±7 years, mean of their education was 9±4.7 classes, mean number of their children was 2.7 ± 1.8, median was 2 and %75 of them were housewives. Mean age of rural mothers was 32±9.5 years, mean of their education was 4±4 classes, mean number of their children was 3.6±2.5, median was 3 and %77.5 of them were housewives. Knowledge of urban and rural mothers was about diagnosis,respectively %26.9 and %14.6 %53.1 and %37.5 about communicability, %73.4 and %46.2 about need to complete treatment and %58.1 and %30 about glumerulonephritis, as another complication. Knowledge of urban mothers about pharyngitis symptoms (P<0.0001), rates of transmission (P<0.05) and knowledge of rhumaticism and glumerulonephritis as complication (P<0.00003) knowledge of urban mothers about the effect of breast feeding on prevention (P<0.01) was significantly better than rural mothers. More than %85 of them had believed in training programs. This research not only showed the nessesity of teaching the care givers and the public but also it helped us to define the educational objectives.