Effect of education on knowledge of fertility counseling and attitudes toward fertility control
نویسندگان
1 Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 MSc of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
3 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University Medical of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: The development of any society depends on proper planning in various fields suchas population and birth control. Fertility control is designed to create a level of population growthappropriate to the resources available and to ensure a good life. Receiving information and educationis one of the basic strategies to change the attitude toward fertility and awareness in most people insociety. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effect of education on knowledge offertility counseling and attitudes toward fertility control in health workers.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was a randomized clinical trial with a controlgroup that was conducted in the presence of 107 health workers of health centers and communityhealth centers working in Mashhad in 2017. The research units were randomly divided into threegroups (webinar training, group discussion training, and control). Research tools were researcher‑madequestionnaires on attitudes toward fertility and measuring healthy reproductive awareness that allstudy participants completed at the beginning of the study and 2 weeks after the intervention. Dataanalysis was performed by the Chi‑square, one‑way analysis of variance, and independent t‑testusing the SPSS software version 16.RESULTS: The results of this study showed that at the beginning of the study, all three groupswere homogeneous in terms of quantitative and qualitative demographic variables including age,education, work experience, type of employment, and number of family members. The results ofKruskal–Wallis test showed that before the intervention, the three groups did not have a statisticallysignificant difference in terms of mean scores of awareness about fertility counseling (P = 0.77) andattitude toward fertility control (P = 0.523), but this relationship was significant after the interventions.Furthermore, the results of Mann–Whitney intragroup test showed that the scores before and afterthe intervention were significant in both educational groups (P = 0.001).CONCLUSION: Considering the importance of healthy fertility counseling and the important placeof education in promoting awareness and attitude toward healthy fertility, it is recommended to useactive educational methods to promote the awareness and attitude of health workers to providehealthy fertility services to couples.
