TY - JOUR JF - JRH JO - J Research Health VL - 4 IS - 2 PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/6/01 TI - Quality of life of couples taking contraceptive pills referred to Tehran University of Medical Sciences health centers TT - بررسی کیفیت زندگی در زوج‌های مصرف کننده قرص‌های جلوگیری از بارداری مراجعه کننده به مراکز بهداشتی N2 - Introduction and Objectives: Oral contraception is the most effective and the most commonly methods that used form of reversible birth control .Pregnancy rate is 2-3 in one hundred women annually. If taken correctly OCP very effective. Objective: This research has been carried out to comparing dimensions Quality of life which consisted of :physical ,Psychological ,social and sexual between women who use oral contraception and her husbands who referring to Health centers of Tehran university of medical sciences during 2009-2010. Methods: This research is a descriptive analytical study .In this research 60 couple who referring to health centers of Tehran university of medical sciences for use of oral contraception were chosen by simple randomized .Data collection was done by WHO quality of life scale that validity and reliability was determined. Data were analyzed by T test .Wilcoxon and chi square test. Results: Results showed that the mean quality of life in psychological dimension 3/2.in social dimension 3/3 and sexual dimension 3/65 and physical dimension 3/52 were obtained. The mean of quality of life in men greater than women but there is not statistically significant different. Quality of life in women and men were statistically significant different in psychological and sexual dimensions .T here is in the women lower than men. Conclusions: Gender have been determined as independent variable that can be negative effected on psychological and sexual dimension. SP - 694 EP - 698 AU - Modares, Maryam AU - Rahnama, Parvin AU - Rahmati Najarkolaei, Fatemeh AU - Moshki, Mahdi AD - KW - contraception methods KW - quality of life KW - oral contraception UR - http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-61-en.html ER -