Effects of group counseling program with women on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of their husbands regarding family Planning in Zahedan health centers in 2002

Najafi, Fereshteh; Ghofranipour, Fazlollah; Rakhshani, Fatemeh; Kazemnejad, Anooshirvan

Effects of group counseling program with women on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of their husbands regarding family Planning in Zahedan health centers in 2002

Authors

Fereshteh Najafi ¹

Fazlollah Ghofranipour ²

Fatemeh Rakhshani ³

Anooshirvan Kazemnejad ⁴

¹ Department of Society Health, Faculty of Nursing, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

² Department of Health Education, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

³ Public Health Department, Faculty of Health, Zahedan Medical Sciences University, Zahedan, Iran

⁴ Department of Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Male involvement is one of the main factors in good performance of family planning programs, and interspouse communication appears to be a precondition for its success. A quasi-experimental study (before and after counseling) was conducted in Zahedan in 2002, to investigate the effect of group-counseling with women on KAP of their husbands concerning family planning. Forty four women with two or more children who had not used contraception were selected by non-probability sampling from 3 health centers. After completing a questionnaire asked from women and their husbands and determining their educational needs, women in 5 groups, 8 members, each participated 3 Counseling sessions. The program was evaluated one month after intervention (by a questionnaire and a checklist). T-Paired Test showed that mean scores of knowledge and attitude of women and their husbands before and after intervention were significantly different (P < 000.1). After intervention, 43% of cases selected one of the contraceptive methods (P < 0.00001). Findings showed that we can improve the KAP of husbands regarding family planning by appropriate counseling of women.

Keywords

Attitude

Family planning

Group counseling

Knowledge

Practice

Volume 4, Issue 1
Winter 2003
Pages 47-54

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Effects of group counseling program with women on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of their husbands regarding family Planning in Zahedan health centers in 2002

Volume 4, Issue 1Winter 2003Pages 47-54

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Volume 4, Issue 1
Winter 2003
Pages 47-54