Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Rural Community Residents towards Consanguineous Marriages
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 6
Abstract
Although consanguineous marriages are widely practiced in Islamic countries, the attitude of community towards consanguineous marriages and the awareness of its health consequences to offspring remain largely ignored. The purpose of the study is to assess the knowledge of rural community towards heath risk due to consanguineous marriages, attitude of rural community towards benefits regarding consanguineous marriages and practice of rural community regarding consanguineous marriages in the rural community. This quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study. The results shows that community have poor knowledge, positive attitude and practice rate of consanguinity is very high. The study concludes that rural community has illiteracy regarding heath risk for offspring due to consanguineous marriages, results shows that they are attracted to consanguineous marriages because it has many socio- economic and psychological benefits and these benefits are making cause to increase the interest of consanguineous marriages in future
Authors and Affiliations
Mujahida Sultana, Kousar Perveen, Muhammad Afzal, Syed Amir Gillani, Aisha Naseer
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