A Study of Relationship Between Socio-economic Factors and Satisfaction with Family Planning Services in Iran

The aim of this research is to study those factors which are related to women’s satisfaction of family planning services in the Shiraz city as a south capital city of Iran. Using survey method and questionnaire technique, 384 married women as the clients of Family Planning Centers, were interviewed. Results show that there are positive and significant relationships between independent variables including occupation rank, duration of using services, degree of expectations fulfillment, as well as degree of knowledge about contraceptives, and clients’ satisfaction (dependent variable). Furthermore there are significant and negative relationships between variables such as number of children ever born, number of unintended pregnancies, as well as degree of side effects, and dependent variable. The Path analysis model, explained 54.9 percent of the variation of women's satisfaction of services provided by Family Planning Centers as dependent variable.