ABSTRACT
Approximately, 48% of all pregnancies in the US are unintentional, unplanned, or mistimed and most unplanned pregnancies result from inconsistent, incorrect or nonuse of a contraceptive method. One of the most important factors which determine contraceptive method is sexual satisfaction as far as diminished sexual pleasure may be a barrier to use of these methods. This descriptive- comparative study carried out on 387 married women aged 15-45 years who used withdrawal method and 387 women who used other contraceptive methods between 2011 and 2012. A questionnaire was used for data collection consisted of two parts; 9 demographic information and 25 assessing sexual satisfaction. Second part consists of Standard Larson questionnaire based on a Likert scale of 1 to 5. Data was analyzed by SPSS ver.18 using descriptive statistics, independent t test, chi-square and regression tests. Mean score of sexual satisfaction was 69.68 +/- 9.8 in women who used withdrawal method and 68.66 +/- 11.53 in women used other contraceptive methods. So, level of sexual satisfaction in both groups was in low level. In this study, level of sexual satisfaction in both groups was in low level. Sexual satisfaction is important factor that influence on couples to choose contraceptives methods, so health workers should give correct and useful information to women before they choose a contraceptive method
ABSTRACT
The main goal of care services is provide and promote mankind's health. Patient satisfaction is recognized as an important parameter for assessing the quality of patient care services. Spatially mothers' satisfaction from delivery is very important because it influence on family and society psychological health. The aim of this study was comparing maternal satisfaction about prenatal and postnatal cares in vaginal and cesarean section delivery at teaching and non- teaching hospitals of Tabriz/ Iran. This is a descriptive-comparative study. We selected 454 women who had been hospitalized for delivery in Alzahra, Talegani [teaching] and 29 Bahman [non- teaching] Tabriz/Iran hospitals. For data collection, we used a questionnaire. Spss/ver13, Descriptive statistic, Independent t test, ANOVA and correlation tests were used for data analysis. Findings indicated the highest level of satisfaction in both kind of hospitals was about physical and the lowest one was about informational aspect in women who had vaginal delivery, accordingly these rates about cesarean section was about physical and about informational and emotional aspects in labor. The analysis of data showed significant difference between mothers' satisfaction with all aspects of care in the teaching and non- teaching hospitals [P < 0.001]. The results showed that the highest rank from mothers' satisfaction was in the physical and the lowest rank was in informational category. Mothers were satisfied from vaginal delivery in all aspects. Rate of satisfaction in non- teaching were more than teaching hospitals