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Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia
Male contribution towards couple infertility is increasing but is less discussed. We aimed to assess the knowledge about iron deficiency anemia (IDA) as a contributor to male infertility in students at health colleges of Jazan University. A multicentric, cross-sectional survey included 910 participa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8701172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34948476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412866 |
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author | Akhter, Mohammad S. Hamali, Hassan A. Iqbal, Johar Mobarki, Abdullah A. Rashid, Hina Dobie, Gasim Madkhali, Aymen M. Arishi, Bader Y. H Ageeli, Emad O. O. Laghbi, Osama S. H. |
author_facet | Akhter, Mohammad S. Hamali, Hassan A. Iqbal, Johar Mobarki, Abdullah A. Rashid, Hina Dobie, Gasim Madkhali, Aymen M. Arishi, Bader Y. H Ageeli, Emad O. O. Laghbi, Osama S. H. |
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description | Male contribution towards couple infertility is increasing but is less discussed. We aimed to assess the knowledge about iron deficiency anemia (IDA) as a contributor to male infertility in students at health colleges of Jazan University. A multicentric, cross-sectional survey included 910 participants and 768 participants qualified as per our inclusion criteria. The questions were categorized as: Model 1—knowledge about IDA-induced male infertility; Model 2—knowledge about IDA. The average knowledge of IDA causing male infertility is very low among students. The 18–20 years age group had a lesser score for either knowledge of IDA (M2; p-value = 0.047) or total (p-value < 0.0001) compared to the older group. In addition, female students were significantly more likely to be better in achieving higher total scores (p-value = 0.023) as well as M2 scores (p-value < 0.0001) when compared to the respective male category. On the other hand, males were significantly better in scoring for M1 (p-value = 0.004) compared to females. Awareness about iron deficiency anemia as a factor in male infertility may reduce the infertility burden, arising from a preventable factor, in the Jazan region. |
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spelling | pubmed-87011722021-12-24 Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia Akhter, Mohammad S. Hamali, Hassan A. Iqbal, Johar Mobarki, Abdullah A. Rashid, Hina Dobie, Gasim Madkhali, Aymen M. Arishi, Bader Y. H Ageeli, Emad O. O. Laghbi, Osama S. H. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Male contribution towards couple infertility is increasing but is less discussed. We aimed to assess the knowledge about iron deficiency anemia (IDA) as a contributor to male infertility in students at health colleges of Jazan University. A multicentric, cross-sectional survey included 910 participants and 768 participants qualified as per our inclusion criteria. The questions were categorized as: Model 1—knowledge about IDA-induced male infertility; Model 2—knowledge about IDA. The average knowledge of IDA causing male infertility is very low among students. The 18–20 years age group had a lesser score for either knowledge of IDA (M2; p-value = 0.047) or total (p-value < 0.0001) compared to the older group. In addition, female students were significantly more likely to be better in achieving higher total scores (p-value = 0.023) as well as M2 scores (p-value < 0.0001) when compared to the respective male category. On the other hand, males were significantly better in scoring for M1 (p-value = 0.004) compared to females. Awareness about iron deficiency anemia as a factor in male infertility may reduce the infertility burden, arising from a preventable factor, in the Jazan region. MDPI 2021-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8701172/ /pubmed/34948476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412866 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Akhter, Mohammad S. Hamali, Hassan A. Iqbal, Johar Mobarki, Abdullah A. Rashid, Hina Dobie, Gasim Madkhali, Aymen M. Arishi, Bader Y. H Ageeli, Emad O. O. Laghbi, Osama S. H. Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia |
title | Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Iron Deficiency Anemia as a Factor in Male Infertility: Awareness in Health College Students in the Jazan Region of Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | iron deficiency anemia as a factor in male infertility: awareness in health college students in the jazan region of saudi arabia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8701172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34948476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412866 |
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