title: The effects of family planning education provided to different gender groups.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether women or men should be preferred as the target group of the family planning education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community trial (educational intervention study).
  
  
  METHODS
  Three villages having similar characteristics in Gaziantep, Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  Currently married women aged between 15-49 and their husbands in these villages.
  
  
  METHODS
  Family planning education was given only to women in the first village, only to men in the second village and to both women and their husbands in the third village.
  
  
  METHODS
  Changes in knowledge, attitudes, the behaviour of married women and their husbands between surveys performed before and after family planning education.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Important changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour were determined in all intervention groups after family planning education. The rate of effective contraceptive usage among women using any one of the contraceptive methods described significantly increased in all groups, especially where family planning education was given to both sexes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family planning education given to one of the couples may easily affect the other. Consistent and regular education is more important than selecting target gender groups for family planning education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozgür
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ihsan Bozkurt
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ozçirpici
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012423:Rural Health; D012737:Sex Factors; D014421:Turkey