Unwanted pregnancy outcomes

ABSTRACT

Unwanted pregnancy is that in which one of the couples or both did not expect pregnancy. Unwanted pregnancy highly affects couples' health and maternal mortality rate. Nowadays, it is one of the major health problems of under developed countries. Regarding the high ratio of that in Iran, this research has tried to investigate its outcomes so that the strategy makers can precisely look for practical solutions on family planning and decrease those and their outcomes. This is a qualitative study based on grounded theory. The participants included women with unwanted pregnancies, their husbands and health centers personnel. Sample size after data saturation through interviews was revealed to be 18 participants. The data were collected by taped semi-organized verbatim interviews recorded for 45-80 minutes. The interviews were conducted in participants' houses with unwanted pregnancies, health centers and in one of the nursing and midwifery faculties in Iran.Strawbert method was handled to analyze the data. The findings, indulged through qualitative method regarding unwanted pregnancy outcomes were classified as 82 codes and 4 groups containing' economic, physical, emotional, family problems and deprevation of social activity. lack of knowledge, motivation and insuficient understanding of couples regarding counsequences, of unwanted pregnancy caused their ignorance concerning family planning. So, the spouses should equally have family planning counseling to modify their attitude and function toward health systems