نيازهاي آموزشي مرتبط با بهداشت باروري در داوطلبان ازدواج

Reproductive health and educational needs among pre-marriage couples

Objectivets): To investigate pre-marriage educational needs of couples to plan support services. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, a self administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 2117 participants in pre-marriage consuIling sessions in Isfahan city. The questionnaire included educational needs in different subjects of reproductive health field, spousal relationships and Islamic rules and rights. The educational priorities in different fields are as fallows: women cancers and safe sex in reproductive health, communication techniques and ways to solve problems with the spouse in the spousal relationships and legal rights related to sex and the advices of Islam about spousal relationships in the field of Islamic rules and rights respectively. Results: The average age of women and men were 22.8 ± 4.2 years, 26.2± 43, respectively. Significant association was observed in the field of reproductive health between the educational needs and womenʹs job (p~O.022), menʹs job (P~O.009), womenʹs age (P~O.OJJ) and the level of education (P~O.OOI), in the field of spousal relationships between the educational needs and womenʹs job (P