فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: One of the most important goals of sexual intercourse is to arouse the psychologicaleffects of intercourse and to increase sexual self‑concept, which changes following sexual behaviorssuch as the use of contraception methods. This study was performed to investigate the relationshipbetween sexual self‑concept and contraception sexual behavior in 15–49‑year‑old women coveredby community health centers.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present descriptive correlational study was performed on 297married women referring to Isfahan community health centers in 2020 who were selected as clusterthat randomly classified. The tools included demographic information and the Snell’s MultidimensionalSexual Self‑Concept Questionnaire, the data of which were analyzed via SPSS version 22 softwareby Mann–Whitney U test and Pearson correlation.RESULTS: Among a total of 297 women, 5.4% of the samples used hormonal methods and 94.6%used non‑hormonal methods, which was the most common intermittent method. The results alsoshowed that the mean score of negative sexual self‑concept in women using the hormonal levelmethod was significantly higher (P = 0.012). Positive and positive sexual self‑concept score wassignificantly higher in women using non‑hormonal methods (P = 0.048 and P = 0.002). Therefore,there was a significant relationship between sexual self‑concept and contraception method.CONCLUSION: Due to the relationship between contraception and sexual self‑concept, it isrecommended to pay attention to the aspects of sexual self‑concept and contraception duringreproductive health counselling sessions so that if there is a disorder, useful advice can be providedor referred, if necessary.