Effects of educational intervention on male participation in family planning in Iran

摘要: Traditionally, family planning programme has viewed women as the primary clients. Recently, need for male participation in family planning has been highlighted but there are limited efforts to bring the reproductive male population to accept contraceptives. A quasi-experiment has been designed enrolling randomly 268 married men from the health centres in lran. Data on awareness, beliefs, attitude and co-operation in adopting family planning methods were recorded from men using a pre-fested Schedule before and after 14 sessions of educational intenvention. Most of the males were aware of at least one contraceptive method but awareness of modern methods was poor (20%) which was increased after intenvention (47%). Their willingness to allow their wives to use contraceptive also increased but the improvement was not statistically significant (p= 0, 08). Use of contraceptive remains low in men even after …