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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">J Reprod Infert</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">arij001</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Reproduction &amp; Infertility</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">2228-5482</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2251-676X</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Avicenna Research Institute</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">jri110</article-id>
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        <article-title>Effects of group counseling program with women on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of their husbands regarding family Planning in Zahedan health centers in 2002</article-title>
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        <contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Najafi</surname><given-names>Fereshteh</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Society Health, Faculty of Nursing, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ghofranipour</surname><given-names>Fazlollah</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Health Education, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rakhshani</surname><given-names>Fatemeh</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Public Health Department, Faculty of Health, Zahedan Medical Sciences University, Zahedan, Iran</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kazemnejad</surname><given-names>Anooshirvan</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran</aff></contrib-group>
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        <year></year>
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        <year></year>
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      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>47</fpage>
      <lpage>55</lpage>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>1</day>
          <month>1</month>
          <year>2003</year>
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        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>1</day>
          <month>1</month>
          <year>2003</year>
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      Male involvement is one of the main factors in good performance of family planning programs, and interspouse communication appears to be a precondition for its success. A quasi-experimental study (before and after counseling) was conducted in Zahedan in 2002, to investigate the effect of group-counseling with women on KAP of their husbands concerning family planning. Forty four women with two or more children who had not used contraception were selected by non-probability sampling from 3 health centers. After completing a questionnaire asked from women and their husbands and determining their educational needs, women in 5 groups, 8 members, each participated 3 Counseling sessions. The program was evaluated one month after intervention (by a questionnaire and a checklist). T-Paired Test showed that mean scores of knowledge and attitude of women and their husbands before and after intervention were significantly different (P&lt;000.1). After intervention, 43% of cases selected one of the contraceptive methods (P&lt;0.00001). Findings showed that we can improve the KAP of husbands regarding family planning by appropriate counseling of women.
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