TY - JOUR ID - 40790 TI - Comparison of Social, Economic and Familial Empowerment in Married Women in Three Cities of Iran JO - International Journal of Community Based Nursing & Midwifery JA - IJCBNM LA - en SN - 2322-2476 AU - Simbar, Masoumeh AU - Alizadeh, Shiva AU - Hajifoghaha, Mahboubeh AU - Dabiri, Fatemeh AD - Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran AD - Student Research Committee, Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 248 EP - 255 KW - Empowerment KW - Iran KW - Social KW - women DO - N2 - Background: Women’s empowerment was defined as their ability to achieve awareness and control their personal, social, economic and political forces aiming at taking measures in order to improve their lives. This study aimed to compare the empowerment of the married women in medical sciences university in social, economic and familial domains in three cities, IRAN. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2016 on 399 married and employed women. Data collection instrument was a four-part questionnaire consisting of demographic, social, economic and familial domains and made by researchers. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS, version 16. Using paired t-test for intra-group and Chi-square and t-test for between groups comparisons. The significance level was set at UR - https://ijcbnm.sums.ac.ir/article_40790.html L1 - https://ijcbnm.sums.ac.ir/article_40790_cdb76f2b1c5888b4a2457718a0cb3455.pdf ER -