فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: Appropriate family planning counseling for informed choice, the right andresponsible use of contraceptive methods is very important. Various barriers such as socialbarriers can have the effect on family planning counseling. In addition, investigation of thosebarriers from the perspective of managers, staff and clients, who are major members inhealth care system, has great importance. The present study was conducted with the goalof comparing managers’, employees’, and clients’ viewpoints about social barriers in familyplanning counseling in health care centers in Isfahan in 2012. Materials and Methods: This is across-sectional one-step three-group comparative descriptive study conducted on 295 subjectsincluding 59 managers, 110 employees, and 126 clients in medical health care centersin Isfahan in 2012. Managers and employees were selected by census sampling and theclients were recruited through convenient random sampling. The data collection tool was aresearcher made questionnaire, which was designed in two sections of fertility and personalcharacteristics and viewpoint measurement. Descriptive and inferential statistical test wereused to analyze the data. Results: The obtained results showed significant difference betweenmean scores of viewpoints in three groups of managers, employees, and clients concerningsocial barriers in family planning counseling (P = 0.001). In addition, most of the managersand employees reported social barriers as the barriers in process of family planning in a largelevel and clients reported it in moderate level. Conclusion: The results express the necessityof health services managers’ planning to modify or delete social barriers, especially the agreedbarriers from the viewpoint of managers and employees that effect on family planning counselingand quality of service provided by them.