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Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran

BACKGROUND: One of the most important demographic challenges over the recent three decades in the world has been a significant fall in the fertility rate. This study aimed to investigate factors related to childbearing intentions among a sample of Iranian women. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of a...

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Autores principales: Araban, Marzieh, Karimy, Mahmood, Armoon, Bahram, Zamani-Alavijeh, Fereshteh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32813137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-0035-4
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author Araban, Marzieh
Karimy, Mahmood
Armoon, Bahram
Zamani-Alavijeh, Fereshteh
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Armoon, Bahram
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description BACKGROUND: One of the most important demographic challenges over the recent three decades in the world has been a significant fall in the fertility rate. This study aimed to investigate factors related to childbearing intentions among a sample of Iranian women. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of a sample of Iranian married women attending 8 centers in Saveh was conducted in 2015. A total of 483 married women 15–49 years old participated in this study. A questionnaire was used to collect data about demographics, attitude, subjective norms, marital satisfaction, social support, hopefulness, and behavioral intentions of childbearing. RESULTS: Overall, 62% of women in the study intended to have children in the next 2 years. The group willing to have children had a higher score on attitude, subjective norms, hopefulness, perceived social support, and marital satisfaction compared to the group unwilling to have children. Also, the regression results revealed that the variables of age, literacy status, employment status, husband literacy, women and husband occupation status, attitude, subjective norms, hopefulness, perceived social support, and marital satisfaction were significant predicting factors for childbearing intention (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The findings highlighted the importance of psychological factors such as marital satisfaction and social support in the childbearing process. Thus, health system planners should pay more attention to these determinants of fertility intention.
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spelling pubmed-73646782020-07-29 Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran Araban, Marzieh Karimy, Mahmood Armoon, Bahram Zamani-Alavijeh, Fereshteh J Egypt Public Health Assoc Research BACKGROUND: One of the most important demographic challenges over the recent three decades in the world has been a significant fall in the fertility rate. This study aimed to investigate factors related to childbearing intentions among a sample of Iranian women. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of a sample of Iranian married women attending 8 centers in Saveh was conducted in 2015. A total of 483 married women 15–49 years old participated in this study. A questionnaire was used to collect data about demographics, attitude, subjective norms, marital satisfaction, social support, hopefulness, and behavioral intentions of childbearing. RESULTS: Overall, 62% of women in the study intended to have children in the next 2 years. The group willing to have children had a higher score on attitude, subjective norms, hopefulness, perceived social support, and marital satisfaction compared to the group unwilling to have children. Also, the regression results revealed that the variables of age, literacy status, employment status, husband literacy, women and husband occupation status, attitude, subjective norms, hopefulness, perceived social support, and marital satisfaction were significant predicting factors for childbearing intention (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The findings highlighted the importance of psychological factors such as marital satisfaction and social support in the childbearing process. Thus, health system planners should pay more attention to these determinants of fertility intention. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7364678/ /pubmed/32813137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-0035-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Zamani-Alavijeh, Fereshteh
Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran
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title_full_unstemmed Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran
title_short Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran
title_sort factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, saveh, iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32813137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-0035-4
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