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Kazemnejad A, gholami fesharki M, Samadi S, Gilani N. Determining the Factors Affecting Childbearing Tendency in Tehran Police Personnel. J Police Med 2015; 4 (3)
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1- Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. , Kazem_an@modares.ac.ir
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
3- MSc, Health, Applied Research Center, Department of Medicine, Iran Police Force (NAJA), Tehran, Iran;
4- Ph.D Student, Biostatistics , Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
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Background: Causes of non-childbearing tendency is an important question in social decision making in each society. According to the importance of childbearing in Iran, this study was done with the aim to consider the factors affecting childbearing tendency in Tehran police personnel. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was done on 384 married police personal in Tehran in 2014. In this study, subjects were selected by using two-stage cluster sampling and responded to both the demographical questionnaire and the expectation, attitude and childbearing tendency questionnaire whose validities and reliabilities had been confirmed. In this study, data were analyzed suing SPSS version 20 software and were reported by independent t-test, analysis of variance and Pearson correlation. Results: This study consisted of 384 persons, 181 (47%) female and 203 (53%) male -185 (48%) line personnel and 199 (52%) staff personnel) with the mean age and work experience of 34 and 11 years, respectively. The positive percent of expectation, attitude and childbearing tendency were 94%, 85%, 77.3% respectively. Results showed that variables low work time, spouse ethnicity, official or contract employment status, active worker status, expectation and attitude toward childbearing, increasing before marriage family size and military grade, ideal age for childbearing, less spouse age difference, increasing ideal number of children showed positive significant relationship with childbearing tendency, and sex, age, work experience, family birth rank, marriage age showed no significant relationship with childbearing tendency. Conclusion: According to the results, reinforcing the need for enhancing and raising children is necessary and it needs to be planned. Also, because of the positive relationship of attitude and marriage expectation with childbearing tendency, essential cultural works are emphasized to improve these two areas.

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Received: 2015/07/1 | Accepted: 2015/08/21 | Published: 2015/10/7

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