survey of education effects on sexual health in couples referred to marriage consultation centers in west azarbalian 1382

survey of education effects on sexual health in   couples referred to marriage consultation centers   in west azarbalian 1382   z. moshiri [1] , h. mohaddesi [2] , 0. terme yosefi [3] , m. vazife asle [4] , s. moshiri [5]     abstract     introduction: sexual contact is a part of human identity in islam. in creation, god gave human, powers to control his behavior. koran and narrations point to nature of sexual pleasure relationship.   as the sexual contacts begins in young ages, a young person should have identification about scientific and ethics of sex. this study has been done in order to significant effects of sexual education in couples who referred to marriage consultation centers.   methods & materials: the study is a semi‑experimental and data was collected by a questionnaire in w. azarbaijan cities (urmia, mahabad, khoy, miandoab). samples were selected by random.   results: results showed that the majority (88%) of samples before education has very weak knowledge and 68.33% had less information about sexual transmitted diseases.   after teaching 90% of samples about sexual contact and 73.33% about sexual transmitted diseases had enough knowledge. for determination of effects education we used t test.   discussion: marriage needs a lot of information, knowledge and cognition. the couples who want to marry need to know themselves and each other these knowledge are about needs, talents dreams, aims , values and expectation from marriage and each other, and a little about emotions. a bad cognition from together cause many disasters and leads to divorce.   key words: education, sexual health   instructor of nursing, urmia university of medical sciences - [1]   instructor of midwifery, urmia university of medical sciences - [2]   student of m.sc of nursing, urmia university of medical sciences - [3]   bse of nursing - [4]   bsc of nursing - [5]