Abstract: Consanguineous marriage is a marriage between two individual close to each other genetically, which increase the probability of offspring to get recessive traits or any inherited diseases.
Due to increased prevalence of inbreeding in Jazan we decided to work on this study to assess awareness of the community about this issue and it’s consequences and figure out the rate of consanguinity among jazan university students.
The study can help to raise the awareness in the community about the seriousness of the relative marriages and its relation to different genetic diseases.
Study method and design: By using a cross-sectional study, the study sample selected by Randomization from both sex in Jazan community at the age (18-30) in different Jazan university colleges. We interviewed them by using a specially designed questionnaire. The data were analyzed by SPSS program.
Study results: The result of awareness were (42.25%) among students and the consanguinity was (66.7%) especially with the first degree that shows (49%) comparing with the other degrees the results indicate low awareness about this issue and high consanguinity.
The results of presents of diseases in students and their families show different numbers between different diseases, 47 (11.7%) of the students answered that they have inherited diseases, 118 (29.3%) of the students answered that their brothers or sisters have inherited diseases and 243 (60.3%) of the students answered that their relatives have inherited diseases.
Conclusion: The aim of this research to study the awareness about consanguineous marriages and it’s inherited disorders and the prevalence of consanguinity among the students and their parents.
The result shows that the awareness of students was low comparing with the standard values which is below the 50 %
The prevalence of consanguinity among students was high especially with the first degree.
The presents of diseases in students and their families show different numbers between different diseases, the highest rate was sickle cell anemia was found in the students, brothers and sisters and their relatives. The lowest disease was cleft palate was found in the students and relatives and does not found in their brothers and sisters.
Recommendation: Premarital test is very important to avoid the inherited disorders specially the autosomal recessive, so the community need more data and awareness programs about the importance of this test.
Due to the low rate of the awareness among students about inherited disorders of consanguineous marriages, especially non-blood diseases, we suggest to do awareness campaigns to mention the most non-blood inherited disorders to increase their awareness.
Keywords: Consanguineous marriage, inherited disorders.
Title: Awareness of Jazan University Students about Consanguineous Marriages and Inherited Disorders
Author: Bushra Al-Qadi, Alaa Abu Taleb, Sarah Salih, Fatimah Alzaher, Amnah Elaqi, Raofah Hakami, Sara Halawi, Ebtesam Osaili, Aisha Ogdi
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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