The Impact of Fauvism Disease Screening Program on the Number of Clients Who Referred to the Amol and Nour Hospitals

Fauvism (Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenate deficiency) is the most common enzyme defect in all societies. However, in our country, especially in northern of Iran, is prevalent, but due to lack of an illness registration system in the country, prevalence and burden of disease is unknown. This study aimed to determine the impact of screening program on Fauvism patients referring load to hospitals. this study is a Cross-sectional study. The documents of children with fauvism who had been hospitalized from 1384 to 1389 (3 years before and after the screening program) in Amol and Nour cities were reviewed. Data about hospitalization duration and blood volume intake were analyzed by Binomial distribution test and mean comparison in two independent groups in SPSS software. among 28506 children who had hospitalized, 386 of them had fauvism; 238 boys and 148 girls. 223 of them were hospitalized before screening program and 163 after screening program. The burden of patients to hospital reduced from 1.74% to 1.04% (p<0.05). It seems that screening program can reduced the number of patients to hospitals in case of fauvism.