Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study
Background and aim: Early marriage threatens the health and human rights of millions of girls all around the world. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of Iranian teenage women about marriage in adolescence. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted based on the conventional con...
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| author | Afrouz Mardi Abbas Ebadi Zahra Behboodi Moghadam Shirin Shahbazi |
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| description | Background and aim: Early marriage threatens the health and human rights of millions of girls all around the
world. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of Iranian teenage women about marriage in
adolescence.
Methods: A qualitative study was conducted based on the conventional content analysis approach on 14 teenage
married women (aged13-19 years) who attended all urban-rural healthcare centers (4 centers) in Ardabil, Iran
between May 2016 and Jan 2017. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews. Purposeful
sampling was continued until data saturation. The data were analyzed using the Graneheim and Landman
strategies.
Results: The mean age at marriage was 13.2 (SD=1.25) years and the duration of marital life ranged from 45
days to 3 years. During the data analysis, three main categories were extracted that each of them consisted of
three sub-categories. The main categories, included "a false sense of sexual development", "death of dreams", and
"threatened independence".
Conclusion: Results of this study revealed that teenage women could not comprehend opportunities in life. These
findings could help health care providers and policy makers to provide teenage women with special care and
better support to prevent negative consequences of early marriage. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-972be8532f374015aea2af2da9e63e102022-12-22T00:50:22ZengElectronic PhysicianElectronic Physician2008-58422008-58422018-02-011026292629810.19082/6292Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative studyAfrouz MardiAbbas EbadiZahra Behboodi MoghadamShirin ShahbaziBackground and aim: Early marriage threatens the health and human rights of millions of girls all around the world. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of Iranian teenage women about marriage in adolescence. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted based on the conventional content analysis approach on 14 teenage married women (aged13-19 years) who attended all urban-rural healthcare centers (4 centers) in Ardabil, Iran between May 2016 and Jan 2017. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews. Purposeful sampling was continued until data saturation. The data were analyzed using the Graneheim and Landman strategies. Results: The mean age at marriage was 13.2 (SD=1.25) years and the duration of marital life ranged from 45 days to 3 years. During the data analysis, three main categories were extracted that each of them consisted of three sub-categories. The main categories, included "a false sense of sexual development", "death of dreams", and "threatened independence". Conclusion: Results of this study revealed that teenage women could not comprehend opportunities in life. These findings could help health care providers and policy makers to provide teenage women with special care and better support to prevent negative consequences of early marriage.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878021/MarriagePerceptionAdolescenceWomen |
| spellingShingle | Afrouz Mardi Abbas Ebadi Zahra Behboodi Moghadam Shirin Shahbazi Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study Electronic Physician Marriage Perception Adolescence Women |
| title | Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study |
| title_full | Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study |
| title_short | Perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an Iranian setting: A qualitative study |
| title_sort | perceptions of teenage women about marriage in adolescence in an iranian setting a qualitative study |
| topic | Marriage Perception Adolescence Women |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878021/ |
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