Clients' Viewpoints about the Quality of Services in the Premarital Counseling Classes in Tabriz Health Centers.
BACKGROUND
Premarital counseling equips couples with information about all aspects of sexuality and the related health issues. This study was aimed to assess the quality of premarital counseling services in health care centers in Tabriz.


METHODS
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 236 randomly selected women from premarital counseling centers in Tabriz was carried out and a self-structured instrument including items on demographic characteristics, the quality of counseling condition and providers, family planning, genetic and thalassemia counseling and sexual health was used for data gathering.


RESULTS
The results showed that the viewpoint of clients about relationship with health care provider and condition of consultation was suitable in 75.8% and 85.2% of women, respectively. It was found that in 72.5%, 38.1% and 49.6% of clients the counseling areas were in moderate level respectively for counseling about importance of family planning, genetic counseling and thalassemia. It was indicated that 58.5% of participants expressed the sexual health aspect of the premarital classes as poor or completely poor.


CONCLUSIONS
Our study results can provide suitable information for health policy providers to improve the quality of premarital counseling classes. In order to develop a relatively stable behavior in young couples, it is recommended that the quality of the classes would be overemphasized.
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Parvin
P
Mohebbi
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Padide
P
Malekpour
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Mahin
M
Kamalifard
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Shirin Barzanje
SB
Atri
Department of Vital Statistics, School of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Abdolrasoul
A
Safaeiyan
Department of Urology, Uro-Oncology Research Center (URoC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Kamyab
K
Alizadeh
Counseling; family planning training; genetic; marriages; self-concepts