Being Single as a Social Barrier to Access Reproductive Healthcare Services by Iranian Girls
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BACKGROUND: Iranian single women are deprived of reproductive healthcare services, though the provision of such services to the public has increased. This study aimed to explore the experiences of Iranian single women on their access to reproductive health services. METHODS: A qualitative design using a conventional content analysis method was used. Semi-structured interviews were held with 17 single women and nine health providers chosen using the purposive sampling method. RESULTS: Data analysis resulted in the development of three categories: 'family's attitudes and performance about single women's reproductive healthcare,' 'socio-cultural factors influencing reproductive healthcare,' and 'cultural factors influencing being a single woman.' CONCLUSION: Cultural and contextual factors affect being a single woman in every society. Therefore, healthcare providers need to identify such factors during the designing of strategies for improving the facilitation of access to reproductive healthcare services.
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Being single as a social barrier is an obstacle for Iranian girls to access sexual and reproductive health services.
“Being single as a social barrier is an obstacle for Iranian girls to access sexual and reproductive health services [51].”
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Barriers to vulnerable adolescent girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health
Janighorban, M., Boroumandfar, Z., Pourkazemi, R., & Mostafavi, F. (2022) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-022-14687-4 · Cited by 90 · see citing works
“Being single as a social barrier is an obstacle for Iranian girls to access sexual and reproductive health services [51].”
BackgroundSelf-citationMohammadi, F., Kohan, S., Farzi, S., Khosravi, M., & Heidari, Z. (2021) · Journal of Education and Health Promotion · doi:10.4103/jehp.jehp_105_21 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Kohan, S., Mohammadi, F., Mostafavi, F., & Gholami, A.
- Affiliations
- Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Mohammadi, Fatemeh
- Venue
- International Journal of Health Policy and Management
- Publisher
- Maad Rayan Publishing Company
- Published
- 2016-08-17
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 147-153
- ISSN
- 2322-5939 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5337252
- OpenAlex
- W2508039338
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- International Journal of Health Policy and Management (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Keywords
- single women, access to reproductive health services, barriers to care, Iranian women, family attitudes, sociocultural factors, cultural factors, health providers, women's reproductive health
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Family Planning Services, Female, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Iran, Single Person, Social Perception, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Young Adult, Social Discrimination
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