Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran
Background and Aim: Having healthy non-handicapped children plays a major role in mental health of the family and decreases family and society’s costs. While consanguineous marriage could lead to expression of recessive genes and a variety of handicaps including deafness, the aim of present study w...
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doaj-038b7f5766ae4db3a75bf615a8ed230f2020-11-25T03:17:15ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesAuditory and Vestibular Research2423-480X2017-07-01212Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western IranShahrooz Nemati0Gholam Ali Afrooz1Ali Asgari2Bagher Ghobari Bonab3Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran Background and Aim: Having healthy non-handicapped children plays a major role in mental health of the family and decreases family and society’s costs. While consanguineous marriage could lead to expression of recessive genes and a variety of handicaps including deafness, the aim of present study was to scrutinize the prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children as well as its relationship with deafness. Methods: In this study, 467 couples parenting normal children were selected by cluster sampling from elementary, guidance and high schools of Ardabil city and 423 couples parenting disabled children were selected non-randomly among which 130 had deaf children. Descriptive statistics was used to determine the prevalence of consanguineous marriage and chi-square test to compare prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of normal and deaf children. Results: Descriptive analyses showed that 80 out of 130 (61.54%) parents who had deaf children have had consanguineous marriage. Furthermore data analysis demonstrated that prevalence ofconsanguineous marriage was significantly higher among parents of deaf children (p<0.001). Conclusion: Consanguineous marriage plays a major role in expression of recessive genes and could lead to development of various handicaps including deafness. Increasing couples’ awareness about consequences of consanguineous marriage and conducting genetic counseling are indispensable. https://avr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/avr/article/view/466Prevalenceconsanguineous marriagedeafness |
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Shahrooz Nemati Gholam Ali Afrooz Ali Asgari Bagher Ghobari Bonab Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran Auditory and Vestibular Research Prevalence consanguineous marriage deafness |
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Shahrooz Nemati Gholam Ali Afrooz Ali Asgari Bagher Ghobari Bonab |
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Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran |
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Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran |
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Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran |
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Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran |
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Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran |
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prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in ardabil, north western iran |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
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Auditory and Vestibular Research |
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Background and Aim: Having healthy non-handicapped children plays a major role in mental health of the family and decreases family and society’s costs. While consanguineous marriage could lead to expression of recessive genes and a variety of handicaps including deafness, the aim of present study was to scrutinize the prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children as well as its relationship with deafness.
Methods: In this study, 467 couples parenting normal children were selected by cluster sampling from elementary, guidance and high schools of Ardabil city and 423 couples parenting disabled children were selected non-randomly among which 130 had deaf children. Descriptive statistics was used to determine the prevalence of consanguineous marriage and chi-square test to compare prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of normal and deaf children.
Results: Descriptive analyses showed that 80 out of 130 (61.54%) parents who had deaf children have had consanguineous marriage. Furthermore data analysis demonstrated that prevalence ofconsanguineous marriage was significantly higher among parents of deaf children (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Consanguineous marriage plays a major role in expression of recessive genes and could lead to development of various handicaps including deafness. Increasing couples’ awareness about consequences of consanguineous marriage and conducting genetic counseling are indispensable.
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