Research Article

What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility?

Volume: 12 Number: 4 October 12, 2018
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What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility?

Abstract

Objective: The study was conducted to determine the thoughts of the women about the participation of their spouses’ into the matter of the arrangement of fertility. Methods: Study is a questionnaire –based descriptive and cross-sectional study. The sample hereby consists of 247 women patient who applied to family planning department and gynecology polyclinic of a State Hospital between June- November 2014 and who accepted to attend the research. Women took the survey, designed by researchers via reviewing the literature. Results: The rate of using method for arrangement fertility in the study of women was 58.3%. Of these women, 65.3% think that their husbands should also use relevant birth control method. Most of the participants believe that the women take responsibility for the arrangement of the fertility; in which 48.2% believe that this is due to unwillingness of males for using birth control method. 83.3% of the women thought that men should participate in arrangement of the fertility. Conclusion: Women believe that men should also take role in arrangement of fertility and their spouses do not take adequate responsibility in this issue. Despite the advantaged positions of men in the subject of arrangement of fertility in Turkey, their roles in family planning remains largely unutilised. Fertility programs should target participation of males.


Amaç: Araştırma doğurganlığın düzenlenmesine eşlerinin katılımı konusunda kadınların düşüncelerini belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Yöntem: Çalışma, ankete dayalı, tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel bir çalışmadır. Çalışmanın örneklemini Haziran-Kasım 2014 tarihleri arasında bir Devlet Hastanesinin aile planlaması bölümüne ve kadın doğum polikliniğine başvuran ve araştırmaya katılmayı kabul eden 247 evli kadın oluşturmuştur. Kadınlara araştırmacılar tarafından literatür doğrultusunda oluşturulan anket formu uygulanmıştır. Bulgular: Araştırmada doğurganlığın düzenlenmesi için kadınların yöntem kullanım oranı %58.3 olarak saptanmıştır. Bu kadınların %65,3’ü eşlerinin de yöntem kullanması gerektiğini düşünmektedir. Kadınların çoğu fertilitenin düzenlenmesinde kendilerinin sorumluluk aldığını, bunun sebebi olarak da %48.2 oranında kadın, erkeklerin yöntem kullanmak istememesinden kaynaklandığını düşünmektedir. Kadınların %83.3'ü erkeklerin doğurganlık düzenleme konusuna katılmaları gerektiğini düşünmektedir. Sonuç: Çalışmada kadınlar erkeklerinde doğurganlığın düzenlenmesine katılmaları gerektiğini ve doğurganlığın düzenlenmesinde eşlerinin yeterince sorumluluk almadıklarını düşünmektedirler. Türkiye’de fertilitenin düzenlenmesi konularında erkeklerin avantajlı konumlarına rağmen, aile planlamasındaki rolü büyük oranda kullanılmamaktadır. Fertilite programlarına erkeklerin de katılımları hedeflenmelidir.

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Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 12, 2018

Submission Date

April 24, 2018

Acceptance Date

June 4, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Volume: 12 Number: 4

APA
Bilgiç, D., Demirel, G., & Dağlar, G. (2018). What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility? Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 12(4), 250-257. https://doi.org/10.21763/tjfmpc.462898
AMA
1.Bilgiç D, Demirel G, Dağlar G. What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility? TJFMPC. 2018;12(4):250-257. doi:10.21763/tjfmpc.462898
Chicago
Bilgiç, Dilek, Gübahtiyar Demirel, and Gülseren Dağlar. 2018. “What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility?”. Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 12 (4): 250-57. https://doi.org/10.21763/tjfmpc.462898.
EndNote
Bilgiç D, Demirel G, Dağlar G (October 1, 2018) What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility? Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 12 4 250–257.
IEEE
[1]D. Bilgiç, G. Demirel, and G. Dağlar, “What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility?”, TJFMPC, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 250–257, Oct. 2018, doi: 10.21763/tjfmpc.462898.
ISNAD
Bilgiç, Dilek - Demirel, Gübahtiyar - Dağlar, Gülseren. “What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility?”. Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 12/4 (October 1, 2018): 250-257. https://doi.org/10.21763/tjfmpc.462898.
JAMA
1.Bilgiç D, Demirel G, Dağlar G. What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility? TJFMPC. 2018;12:250–257.
MLA
Bilgiç, Dilek, et al. “What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility?”. Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, vol. 12, no. 4, Oct. 2018, pp. 250-7, doi:10.21763/tjfmpc.462898.
Vancouver
1.Dilek Bilgiç, Gübahtiyar Demirel, Gülseren Dağlar. What Women Think About Their Spouses’ Participation to The Arrangement of Fertility? TJFMPC. 2018 Oct. 1;12(4):250-7. doi:10.21763/tjfmpc.462898

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