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Engaged Couples’ Views of About Marriage and Educational Needs Regarding Reproductive and Sexual Health in Turkey

In Turkey, there is little information about couples’ reproductive and sexual health (RSH) educational needs. This study was conducted to determine engaged couples’ views of about marriage and RSH educational needs in Turkey in 2015. In a descriptive and cross-sectional study, 514 engaged couples participating in the study were selected by randomly. A questionnaire form was developed by researcher to describe couples’ view of about marriage and the need for RSH education. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskall-Wallis test, Correlation analysis and Ki-square tests was used in data evaluation. Average marriage age of the newly-weds was 27.1±3.6 (min:18, max:35) for women, and 29.1±3.2 (min:20, max:36) for men in the research. Average reproduction health-sexual health scores of the individuals who participated in the research were 44.6±20.7 (min:0, max:100). Most of couples mentioned high need for SRH education, particularly in topics related to parenthood and sexuality. As the age group, educational level, employment rate and income level of the participants increased, their reproduction health knowledge scores increased. RSH knowledge score average of the individuals, who did not receive pre-marriage counseling service, who have broken family, who married with arranged marriage and married with relatives, was lower (p<0.05). It was revealed as a result of the research that the individuals who apply to get married had information necessity about RSH. The results suggest a need for developing comprehensive premarital education for couples.