TY - JOUR TI - Studying the relationship between the educational level and the society awareness toward the risk of the consanguinity marriage in Al-Madinah A1 - Karbouji, Mohammed A2 - Ahmed, Samia Mahdi A3 - AlGain, Raneem Sami A4 - Althaher, Abdulrahman A5 - Alhejaili, Shumukh A6 - AlAyoubi, Shahad JF - International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries JO - IJMDC SN - 1658-7820 VL - 1 IS - 3 SP - 107 EP - 116 Y1 - 2017 AB - Background: Consanguinity is the union between genetically related persons. It is more prevalent in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The offspring of consanguineous marriage are at greater risks for certain genetic diseases.Methodology: The study is a cross-sectional observational study with a self-administered questionnaire. It included 810 participants from 18 to 60 years of age from Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia.Results: Our study reveals that 42.2% were against consanguineous marriage and 14.3% were in favor of it, the highest percentage of those against consanguineous marriage were post graduate participants.Conclusion: There is a negative correlation between education level and attitude toward consanguineous marriage. Increasing level of education decreases the attitude toward consanguineous marriage. PB - https://www.ijmdc.com DO - 10.24911/IJMDC.1.3.4 UR - https://www.ijmdc.com/?mno=287644 ER -