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. 2020 Nov;30(6):1005-1010.
doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v30i6.19.

Counselling Needs of Sickle-Cell Anaemia Adolescents in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Lateef Omotosho Adegboyega  1
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Counselling Needs of Sickle-Cell Anaemia Adolescents in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Lateef Omotosho Adegboyega. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

Background: Sickle-cell disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder of hemoglobin (Hb) structure and the most common of the hemoglobinopathies. Hence, this study investigated counseling needs of sickle-cell anaemia adolescents in Ekiti State.

Methods: Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to draw a total of 121 respondents. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Mean and rank order were used to answer the research question while chi-square and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.

Results: The findings revealed that counselling needs of adolescents with sickle-cell anaemia include counsellors are expected to encourage adolescents with sickle-cell anaemia to have confidence in self among others. The findings also revealed that there was a significant difference in the counselling needs of adolescents with sickle-cell anaemia based on gender while there was no significant difference in the counselling needs of adolescents with sickle-cell anaemia based on religion.

Conclusion: The counselling needs of adolescents with sickle-cell anaemia include adolescents with sickle-cell anaemia easily comprehend the counselling therapy of counsellor among others. It was recommended that Government should offer standard health care for all adolescents with Sickle-cell disease.

Keywords: Adolescents; Counselling Needs; Sickle-cell Anaemia.

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