بررسی نگرش مادران نسبت به آموزش مسائل دوران بلوغ دختران دوره راهنمایی در شهر تهران 1372

  The present research is a field study in order to investigate the attitude of mothers towards education of puberty problems, in secondary school children, girls age between 11-1.4 years old, in Tehran, 1993.   The instrument used was a questionnaire and data was collected through a two section questionnaire. The first part contained demographic information (10 items), and the second section posed questions on the attitude of mother's towards education of puberty problems including 30   items.   A total of 150 mothers were selected randomly and participated in this study.   Statistical analysis was performed and for analytical correlations, Pierson and Chi-square tests were employed and data are presented in 54 tables.   The result revealed that the majority of mothers with positive attitude, was between the ages of 30-34 years, house holders and all of them married. Findings also indicated that mothers' and their husband's level of education have a direct influence on mothers, positive attitude towards   providing education of Emotional-Behavioural problems during puberty.   The result also showed that with the increased number of children and their grade of birth, the positive attitude of mothers is diminished. Findings revealed that mothers level of education has a direct influence in their attitude towards education of puberty problems. In contrary, the number of children and the grade of their birth have an opposite effect on their positive attitude.   Finally, application of results of this research based on these findings, suggestions for further investigations were presented.