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Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking
BACKGROUND: The concept of negative population growth, population aging, and the need to implement child-encouraging policies is an important concern in many countries. As this issue is completely cultural and country-based, this study is designed to assess and prioritize the perception of newly mar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524147 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_225_20 |
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author | Hashemzadeh, Mozhgan Shariati, Mohammad Nazari, AliMohammad Keramat, Afsaneh Ebrahimi, Elham |
author_facet | Hashemzadeh, Mozhgan Shariati, Mohammad Nazari, AliMohammad Keramat, Afsaneh Ebrahimi, Elham |
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description | BACKGROUND: The concept of negative population growth, population aging, and the need to implement child-encouraging policies is an important concern in many countries. As this issue is completely cultural and country-based, this study is designed to assess and prioritize the perception of newly married couples to the policies that may have a crucial role in the childbearing intention around the world. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Through a descriptive cross-sectional study, 300 couples were selected by a simple random sampling method. Multilevel binary logistic regression was used for investigating the relationships among dimensions of family policies, socio-demographic variables, and childbearing intention. RESULTS: Childbearing perception positively correlated with education and permanent job in both genders, maternal age range of 25–35, the higher length of marriage, having more children, and living in a government settlement. The most important family policies that couples preferred were contextual requirements (mean rank of 4.50%). Positive childbearing perception negatively correlated with higher age categories in women, the number of children, rental housing status, no insurance access, higher educational attainment, and low employment ranks in both men and women. CONCLUSIONS: This study cleared that family policies affect the childbearing intention of young couples. Polices involved contextual requirements, supporting couples to integrate work and home, health promotion plans, child-centered social support, and promoting the level of social and cultural relations. |
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spelling | pubmed-97458432022-12-14 Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking Hashemzadeh, Mozhgan Shariati, Mohammad Nazari, AliMohammad Keramat, Afsaneh Ebrahimi, Elham Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: The concept of negative population growth, population aging, and the need to implement child-encouraging policies is an important concern in many countries. As this issue is completely cultural and country-based, this study is designed to assess and prioritize the perception of newly married couples to the policies that may have a crucial role in the childbearing intention around the world. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Through a descriptive cross-sectional study, 300 couples were selected by a simple random sampling method. Multilevel binary logistic regression was used for investigating the relationships among dimensions of family policies, socio-demographic variables, and childbearing intention. RESULTS: Childbearing perception positively correlated with education and permanent job in both genders, maternal age range of 25–35, the higher length of marriage, having more children, and living in a government settlement. The most important family policies that couples preferred were contextual requirements (mean rank of 4.50%). Positive childbearing perception negatively correlated with higher age categories in women, the number of children, rental housing status, no insurance access, higher educational attainment, and low employment ranks in both men and women. CONCLUSIONS: This study cleared that family policies affect the childbearing intention of young couples. Polices involved contextual requirements, supporting couples to integrate work and home, health promotion plans, child-centered social support, and promoting the level of social and cultural relations. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9745843/ /pubmed/36524147 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_225_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research https://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 Hashemzadeh, Mozhgan Shariati, Mohammad Nazari, AliMohammad Keramat, Afsaneh Ebrahimi, Elham Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking |
title | Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking |
title_full | Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking |
title_fullStr | Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking |
title_full_unstemmed | Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking |
title_short | Principal Factors Affecting Couples' Childbearing Policies: A Roadmap for Policymaking |
title_sort | principal factors affecting couples' childbearing policies: a roadmap for policymaking |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524147 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_225_20 |
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