Social Determinant of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganjafrooz Street, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
Department of Nursing- Midwifery, Islamic Azad University, Babol Branch, Babol, Iran.
BMC Womens Health. 2020 Apr 28;20(1):83. doi: 10.1186/s12905-020-00943-5.
Fertility, in addition to the biomedical aspect, is phenomena of social, economic and demographic changes. Social network were considered for understanding fertility behaviors and changes in the levels of fertility. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between social capital and childbirth behaviors in Iranian women employees.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 on 536 women health care workers who randomly selected from health care setting Babol/Iran. Data were collected using demographic, childbearing behavior and social capital questionnaires. The SPSS-21 software was employed to analysis the data at a significant level of 0.05.
The results of the study showed that, there was significant relationship between number of pregnancy and social capital (P = 0.039). Furthermore, social capital has a significant relationship with the time of pregnancy (P = 0.043), the time of pregnancy in women with high social capital was observed to be relatively 30% shorter compare the women with low social capital.
Social capital, as one of the important factors influencing childbirth behaviors, should be considered in population planning and policy making.
生育除了具有生物医学方面的意义外，还是社会、经济和人口变化的现象。社会网络被认为是理解生育行为和生育水平变化的一种方式。本研究旨在探讨伊朗女性员工的社会资本与生育行为之间的关系。
这是 2017 年在伊朗巴博勒的医疗保健机构中随机抽取的 536 名女性医护人员进行的横断面研究。使用人口统计学、生育行为和社会资本问卷收集数据。采用 SPSS-21 软件进行数据分析，显著水平设为 0.05。
研究结果表明，妊娠次数与社会资本之间存在显著关系（P=0.039）。此外，社会资本与妊娠时间显著相关（P=0.043），高社会资本女性的妊娠时间比低社会资本女性短约 30%。
社会资本作为影响生育行为的重要因素之一，应在人口规划和政策制定中予以考虑。
