Need assessment: Sexual health education in family planning centers, Tehran, Iran
Objective(s): This paper explores the sexual health education needs and appropriate content for such education in Tehran. Methods: 21 married female in reproductive age from Tehran were recruited using snowball sampling and participated in qualitative interviews using focus group techniques. Results...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research
2010-07-01
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| Series: | Payesh |
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| Online Access: | http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-563-en.html |
| Summary: | Objective(s): This paper explores the sexual health education needs and appropriate content for such education in Tehran.
Methods: 21 married female in reproductive age from Tehran were recruited using snowball sampling and participated in qualitative interviews using focus group techniques.
Results: Participants addressed four themes: women’s sex education needs, husbandschr('39') sex education needs, behaviors that women dislike in their sexual relationship, women’s ideas about sex education. Sex education needs encompasses various subjects including basic concepts of sexuality and sexual behaviors. A considerable number of women disliked some sexual behaviors and had questions along those lines. They believed that sex education can influence their sexual life in a positive way.
Conclusion: Attention to cultural sensitivities, realities of couples’ sexual relationship and conceiving their needs as it is, seems to help to design and implementation of a program that is going to meet people real needs. |
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| ISSN: | 1680-7626 2008-4536 |