Jundishapur Journal of Chronic Disease Care
The Official Journal of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences
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Nephrotic syndrome is a common glomerular injury that appears in primary shape of children. Parents' knowledge quantity is important to prevent complications from the disease, so this study aimed to determination the knowledge quantity of parents about recurrence of disease.
In this descriptive study based on a designed questionnaire that 66 parents of children with nephrotic syndrome were randomly selected. The validity of questionnaire was confirmed by teachers of the AJUMS. Cronbach's alpha showed that with ? = 0.82 the questionnaire has good validity. Collected data were analyzed using Chi-square test.
Only 18.2% had good knowledge about their child's recurrence of symptoms. Furthermore there is a significant relationship between of literacy of caring fathers and their education level (P = 0.01).
It was found that most parents hadn't good knowledge about the recurrence of symptoms, so recommended further studies.
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