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Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals
INTRODUCTION: Awareness toward premarital screening test and its influence on preventing high risk marriages has become a concern to the health care system in Oman. This is due to the increased rates of inherited diseases and genetic disorders among the Omani population secondary to consanguineous m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8882947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35237718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608221078156 |
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author | Alkalbani, Ali Alharrasi, Maryam Achura, Susan Al Badi, Ammar Al Rumhi, Amjad Alqassabi, Khalid Almamari, Raya Alomari, Omar |
author_facet | Alkalbani, Ali Alharrasi, Maryam Achura, Susan Al Badi, Ammar Al Rumhi, Amjad Alqassabi, Khalid Almamari, Raya Alomari, Omar |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Awareness toward premarital screening test and its influence on preventing high risk marriages has become a concern to the health care system in Oman. This is due to the increased rates of inherited diseases and genetic disorders among the Omani population secondary to consanguineous marriages. OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study aims to describe the utilization of premarital screening tests of selected university study participants as future prospective couples. METHODS: The study included 400 Omani study participants from different majors at a national governmental university that receives students from all over the country. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: Out of the 400 study participants 193 [48.3%] were females and 195 [48.8%] were males, and 380 [95%] were unmarried and 19 [4.8%] were married. Personal and family history of hereditary diseases and consanguinity between parents were reported by 40 participants [10%], 158 [39.5%] and 175 [43.8%] respectively. Three hundred and sixty-one [90.3%] of the total participants were aware of the availability of premarital screening tests in Oman. A total of 357 [89.3%] thought it is necessary to do a premarital screening test and 367 [91.8%] agreed to carry out it in the future. The novel contribution of this manuscript is that our logistic regression showed that people with personal or family history of hereditary disease, and have consanguinity between parents, being a female did not show willingness to undertake the screening while those who are married, have higher GPA, and older supported it. CONCLUSION: Usability of the freely available premarital screening is low despite the study participants awareness and willingness. Future studies should target those who have a history of genetic disease and females as we found them not willing to undertake the test in this study. We also recommend putting in place mandatory rules and regulations for premarital screening tests with better counselling strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-88829472022-03-01 Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals Alkalbani, Ali Alharrasi, Maryam Achura, Susan Al Badi, Ammar Al Rumhi, Amjad Alqassabi, Khalid Almamari, Raya Alomari, Omar SAGE Open Nurs Original Research Article INTRODUCTION: Awareness toward premarital screening test and its influence on preventing high risk marriages has become a concern to the health care system in Oman. This is due to the increased rates of inherited diseases and genetic disorders among the Omani population secondary to consanguineous marriages. OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study aims to describe the utilization of premarital screening tests of selected university study participants as future prospective couples. METHODS: The study included 400 Omani study participants from different majors at a national governmental university that receives students from all over the country. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: Out of the 400 study participants 193 [48.3%] were females and 195 [48.8%] were males, and 380 [95%] were unmarried and 19 [4.8%] were married. Personal and family history of hereditary diseases and consanguinity between parents were reported by 40 participants [10%], 158 [39.5%] and 175 [43.8%] respectively. Three hundred and sixty-one [90.3%] of the total participants were aware of the availability of premarital screening tests in Oman. A total of 357 [89.3%] thought it is necessary to do a premarital screening test and 367 [91.8%] agreed to carry out it in the future. The novel contribution of this manuscript is that our logistic regression showed that people with personal or family history of hereditary disease, and have consanguinity between parents, being a female did not show willingness to undertake the screening while those who are married, have higher GPA, and older supported it. CONCLUSION: Usability of the freely available premarital screening is low despite the study participants awareness and willingness. Future studies should target those who have a history of genetic disease and females as we found them not willing to undertake the test in this study. We also recommend putting in place mandatory rules and regulations for premarital screening tests with better counselling strategies. SAGE Publications 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8882947/ /pubmed/35237718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608221078156 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Article Alkalbani, Ali Alharrasi, Maryam Achura, Susan Al Badi, Ammar Al Rumhi, Amjad Alqassabi, Khalid Almamari, Raya Alomari, Omar Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals |
title | Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening
Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals |
title_full | Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening
Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals |
title_fullStr | Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening
Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening
Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals |
title_short | Factors Affecting the Willingness to Undertake Premarital Screening
Test Among Prospective Marital Individuals |
title_sort | factors affecting the willingness to undertake premarital screening
test among prospective marital individuals |
topic | Original Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8882947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35237718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608221078156 |
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