Needs for a gender‐based perimarital couples’ counselling services in Iran

Aim To assess needs for a gender‐sensitive perimarital counselling services in Iran. Design A descriptive cross‐sectional study. Methods This was a study on all 236 premarital counselling providers in 37 health centres in Shiraz‐Iran. The tools for data collection included the following: (a) a demog...

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Published in:Nursing open 2021-03, Vol.8 (2), p.850-857
Main Authors: Simbar, Masoumeh, Rahmanian, Fatemeh, Nazarpour, Soheila, Ramezankhani, Ali, Zayeri, Farid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Cooperation
Counseling
Counseling services
Couples
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease prevention
Education
Empowerment
Gender
gender‐sensitive
Health facilities
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Iran
Islamic countries
Marriage counseling
Midwifery
needs
nurses
nursing
perimarital counselling
Questionnaires
Reproductive health
services
Surveys and Questionnaires
Womens health
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Summary:Aim To assess needs for a gender‐sensitive perimarital counselling services in Iran. Design A descriptive cross‐sectional study. Methods This was a study on all 236 premarital counselling providers in 37 health centres in Shiraz‐Iran. The tools for data collection included the following: (a) a demographic information questionnaire and; (b) a valid and reliable Needs Assessment questionnaire for Gender‐Sensitive Perimarital Counseling Services (GSPCS) in 3 sections of needs for process, structure and policy making of the perimarital counselling services. Data were analysed using SPSS 21. Results All health providers with average working experience of 8.63 (SD 5.35) years participated in the study. Results demonstrated highest scores for needs related to facilities as the structure of the services (90.09 SD 13.70 per cent) and community empowerment (89.50 SD 16.67 per cent) as the necessary policy for the gender‐sensitive services. We concluded that providing gender‐sensitive perimarital counselling healthcare services needs to reform the process, structure and policies of the services.
ISSN:2054-1058
2054-1058
DOI:10.1002/nop2.692