The Quality of Provided Services for Combined Contraceptive Pill Users

Family Planning (FP) saves lives through planned management of pregnancy. The Combined Oral Contraceptive (COC) pill has become an integral part of family planning choice in almost every country. We performed this study to assess the quality of services provided to combined contraceptive pill users. A descriptive study was performed over 100 health care providers of Tabriz healthy-therapeutic centers and 500 clients. The data was collected by interview form and observation of expected activities in 7 field including communication, education, consultation, examination, health record filling, follow up and accessibility of clients to family planning services. It is concluded from this study that the performance of service providers working in health units of healthy-therapeutic centers was not acceptable.