Clients’ Viewpoints about the Quality of Services in the Premarital Counseling Classes in Tabriz Health Centers, 2009.

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Abstract: Introduction: Marriage and establishing a family is one of the most important events of everyone's life which has significant effects on personal and social health if it occurs appropriately and is intertwined with enough knowledge. Thus in recent years, premarital program are considered important to promote the quality of married life. Therefore pre-marriage counseling is very important in in all communities. In pre –marriage counseling, couples are educated on reproductive health such as family planning, genetic counseling, thalassemia, sexual health to make them realize it's important in their lives. This study was performed to determine clients' viewpoints about the quality of consultation in the pre –marriage counseling in Tabriz health centers in 2009. Methods: This research is a descriptive study, 236 clients were selected randomly who had inclusion criteria and referred to pre –marital counseling centers in Tabriz. Data gathering instrument was a questionnaire which made by researcher and it was in 8 section (demographic questions, questions about how treatment, counseling condition, importance of family planning, prevention methods, genetic counseling, thalassemia and sexual health) and were used after determining the validity and reliability. The data have been analyzed with descriptive statistical methods, using SPSS. Results: The results showed that the viewpoints of clients about personnel's' behavior and condition of consultation for the 75.8, 85.2 percent of samples have been suitable. Counseling about importance of family planning, methods in preventing pregnancy (pills, condom, IUD, ampoule), genetic counseling and thalassemia was determined that 72.5, 70.8, 76.7, 44.1, 40.7, 38.1, 49.6 percent of clients assessed in moderate level respectively. Health sexual consultation showed that 53.4 percent expressed them in the low limit. Conclusion: Strategy Ministry of Health and Medical Education regarding education couple in health centers is very important principle that should be implemented seriously and followed. In order to develop a relatively stable behavior in young couple it is recommended that the quality of the classes would be overemphasized. It seems necessary to allocated more time to these classes and to enrich educational content items.