DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEMOPHILIA IN PERSONS WHO DO NOT SUFFER FROM THIS DISEASE Cover Image

DEMOGRAFICZNO-SPOŁECZNE UWARUNKOWANIA POZIOMU WIEDZY O HEMOFILII U OSÓB NIE DOTKNIĘTYCH TYM PROBLEMEM ZDROWOTNYM
DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEMOPHILIA IN PERSONS WHO DO NOT SUFFER FROM THIS DISEASE

Author(s): Katarzyna Walęcka-Matyja
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: hemophilia; level of the knowledge of hemophilia; family

Summary/Abstract: The group which has been examinated was composed of 82 persons (40 women and 42 men). The following method was questionnaire prepared by autor of this article. The purpose of the study was described the level of the knowledge of hemophilia in examined group of people, who were not suffernig from hemophilia nad comparison level of the knowledge of hemophilia between the women and the men. The results indicated the fact that few of the women and the men was able to explain correctly and enough the conceptions connected with hemophilia (definition, symptoms and kinds of this disease. There are statistically significant differences between the sexes regarded in range of the symptoms and kinds of hemophilia. The women often than men had more wide view of disease like hemophilia. Relatively more examinated persons were given properly answers, concerned social mtyhs of hemophilia.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 91-101
  • Page Count: 11