Comparing school age thalassemia children's behavioral problem referring to ‎children center in Rasht with their healthy classmates

Introduction: Noting children's behavioral problem,&lrm;&rlm; &rlm;which formats major forms of children &lrm;psycho-pathology in all culture and human communities, is very important because most adult &lrm;behavioral disorder originates from primary experiences in childhood. Behavioral problem &lrm;have different reasons and one of these reasons are chronic physical illnesses such as major b-&lrm;thalassemia.&lrm;&rlm; &rlm;Better recognition of thalassemic children's behavioral problem is the foundation &lrm;for effective health care planes and prevention of prolonged psycho- behavioral problem in &lrm;future.&lrm; Objective: This research was conducted to compare school-age thalassemic children's &lrm;behavioral problem with their healthy classmates.&lrm; &nbsp;Methods: This is comparative &ndash; descriptive study that &lrm;&rlm;50&rlm;&lrm; children with thalassemia referred to &lrm;children Hospital in Rasht and &lrm;&rlm;100&rlm;&lrm; peers with their mothers participated. Data collection tool &lrm;was a questionnaire including two sections: the first part including demographic characteristics&rlm; &rlm;of thalassemic and healthy children and parents, and second part included child behavioral &lrm;checklist in parent-report that was completed by the mother of the patient. Analysis of Data &lrm;was done by descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and deductive statistics (c&rlm;2&rlm;&lrm; &ndash; &lrm;test).&lrm; Results: Research findings showed that most of suitable behavior at samples research in &lrm;thalassemic group (&lrm;&rlm;100%&rlm;&lrm;) related to sexual problem and other problem and in health group &lrm;&lrm;(&lrm;&rlm;100%&rlm;&lrm;) related to social problem, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior somatic &lrm;complaints,&lrm;&rlm; &rlm;anxiety/depression, though problem, Sexual and other problem.&lrm;&rlm; &rlm;Resulths showed &lrm;that there was significant statistical difference between the two groups in behavioral problem &lrm;at social problem (P<&lrm;&rlm;0.0001&rlm;&lrm;), aggressive behavioral (P<&lrm;&rlm;0.00001&rlm;&lrm;) Attention problem (P<&lrm;&rlm;0.03&rlm;&lrm;), &lrm;somatic complaint (P<&lrm;&rlm;0.01&rlm;&lrm;), Anxiety/depression&rlm; &rlm;&lrm;(P<&lrm;&rlm;0.0001&rlm;&lrm;) withdrawn (P<&lrm;&rlm;0.0001&rlm;&lrm;).&lrm; Conclusion: Results showed that most of samples in thalassemic group (&lrm;&rlm;94%&rlm;&lrm;) and healthy &lrm;group (&lrm;&rlm;100%&rlm;&lrm;) had suitable behavior and statistical c&rlm;2&rlm;&lrm; &ndash; test showed significant difference in &lrm;behavioral problem between the two groups.&lrm;&rlm; &rlm;As well between behavioral problem and &lrm;demographic characteristics except father age.&lrm;