TAILIEUCHUNG - Parental knowledge of their children’s congenital heart disease and its impact on their growth

Second, they review the various ways that social institutions, in- cluding government, can play a role in furthering family mealtimes as a vehicle to enhancing child development and building healthy communities. They offer six recommendations of actions that may be taken to promote regular and healthy family mealtimes. There is considerable concern in this country for what has been described as an obesity epidemic, particularly among children. We have had a previous SPR on this topic, The Epidemic of Childhood Obesity: Review of Research and Implications for Public Policy, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2006. However, much. | Khartoum Medical Journal 2009 Vol. 02 No. 02 pp. 191 - 196 191 Parental knowledge of their children s congenital heart disease and its impact on their growth Laila M El Mahdi1 Mohammed S Hashim2 Sulafa KM Ali1 2 1 Department of Paediatric Cardiology Sudan Heart Centre 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child health University of Khartoum Abstract Parental understanding of chronic illness is associated with improved compliance with medical care. This is a survey carried out at the Sudan Heart Centre SHC during the period from April to July 2005. It involved 100 children with congenital heart disease CHD aged 6 months to 15 years and their parents. The Parents were interviewed to evaluate their knowledge attitudes and practice towards their children s CHD and to assess the impact of their knowledge on the growth of their children. The most common CHD were ventricular septal defect 22 and tetralogy of Fallot 18 . Thirty percent of the parents correctly named their children s CHD and 21 correctly indicated the heart lesion or lesions on a heart diagram. Only twenty seven percent of all parents had heard of infective endocarditis IE . Multivariate analysis by logistic regression showed that cardiac diagnosis educational attainment and occupation of the parents were the main determinants of parents knowledge of the nature of their children s heart disease. A score for parents knowledge showed that 36 had good knowledge more than 60 of the correct answers while poor knowledge was found in 64 of the parents. Fifty five percent of the children had weights below the 3rd percentile for age thirty seven 37 between the 3rd - 50th percentile and only 08 were between 50th -97th percentile. Thirty six of the patients 36 had heights below 3rd percentile for age. The patients with both weight and height below the 3rd percentile were 31 and they were described as failing to thrive. The growth of children of parents with good knowledge was not better than that of children of parents with

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