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Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study
BACKGROUND: Considering the obvious reasons for the necessity of men's sexual and reproductive health education, the present qualitative study aims to identify and contextualize the barriers to sexual and reproductive health education to men in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative rese...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6485022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057633 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_132_18 |
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author | MirzaiiNajmabadi, Khadigeh Karimi, Leila Ebadi, Abbas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Considering the obvious reasons for the necessity of men's sexual and reproductive health education, the present qualitative study aims to identify and contextualize the barriers to sexual and reproductive health education to men in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative research was conducted using conventional procedures of content analysis. A total of 34 participants consisting of authorities in health organizations, healthcare providers, clergies, and adult men in a general population were interviewed in two large cities of Iran including Tehran and Mashhad in 2016. Purposive sampling continued until data saturation was ensured. Data were collected through individual in-depth semi-structured interviews. All interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed in verbatim. Finally, the data were analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: Participants' experiences were categorized into three main themes including (1) individual barriers, (2) sociocultural barriers, and (3) structural barriers along with seven subthemes including low perceived threat, unwillingness to learn, sociocultural taboos, family's lack of knowledge and malperformance, policy-making barriers, executive barriers, and health system deficiency barriers. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the results obtained, many barriers to men's sexual and reproductive health education could be eliminated through overcoming the individual and structural barriers and sociocultural taboos, as major obstacles. The findings suggest overcoming these barriers and promoting men's health require raising awareness overcoming sociocultural taboos. In this regard, policy-makers should provide sexual and reproductive health education programs and create opportunities and facilities along with appropriate learning environments for men. |
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spelling | pubmed-64850222019-05-04 Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study MirzaiiNajmabadi, Khadigeh Karimi, Leila Ebadi, Abbas Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Considering the obvious reasons for the necessity of men's sexual and reproductive health education, the present qualitative study aims to identify and contextualize the barriers to sexual and reproductive health education to men in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative research was conducted using conventional procedures of content analysis. A total of 34 participants consisting of authorities in health organizations, healthcare providers, clergies, and adult men in a general population were interviewed in two large cities of Iran including Tehran and Mashhad in 2016. Purposive sampling continued until data saturation was ensured. Data were collected through individual in-depth semi-structured interviews. All interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed in verbatim. Finally, the data were analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: Participants' experiences were categorized into three main themes including (1) individual barriers, (2) sociocultural barriers, and (3) structural barriers along with seven subthemes including low perceived threat, unwillingness to learn, sociocultural taboos, family's lack of knowledge and malperformance, policy-making barriers, executive barriers, and health system deficiency barriers. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the results obtained, many barriers to men's sexual and reproductive health education could be eliminated through overcoming the individual and structural barriers and sociocultural taboos, as major obstacles. The findings suggest overcoming these barriers and promoting men's health require raising awareness overcoming sociocultural taboos. In this regard, policy-makers should provide sexual and reproductive health education programs and create opportunities and facilities along with appropriate learning environments for men. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6485022/ /pubmed/31057633 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_132_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article MirzaiiNajmabadi, Khadigeh Karimi, Leila Ebadi, Abbas Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study |
title | Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study |
title_full | Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study |
title_short | Exploring the Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Men in Iran: A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | exploring the barriers to sexual and reproductive health education for men in iran: a qualitative study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6485022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057633 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_132_18 |
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