reproductive health literacy and its relationship with some demographic factors in men referring to one infertility center in mashhad city, iran

Background: infertility is one of the important concerns for couples. men have rarely beenthe focus of research, and their knowledge and attitude have been less studied so far. this studyinvestigated health literacy and attitude in men with infertility.methods: in this descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study, 196 men referred to one infertilitycenter in mashhad city, iran, in 2019 were selected by a convenience sampling method. thestudy data were collected using a 20-item health literacy questionnaire and 5 attitude itemstowards infertility.the relationships between age, education, occupation, income, duration of infertility, assistedreproductive technologies (art), history with reproductive health literacy, and attitude wereinvestigated with t test, anova, and linear regression in spss v. 20 software at a significancelevel of less than 0.05.results: the mean±sd age of men was 35.02±6.06 years. their mean±sd reproductive healthliteracy score (3.2±0.3) did not show significant relationships with age (p=0.336), education(p=0.33), job (p=0.493), income (p=0.856), infertility duration (p=0.136), and history of art(p=0.057). all attitude questions were not related to the education and history of art. attitudeabout surrogacy (p=0.011) and the possibility of separation of each couple in case of infertility(p=0.001) (p=0.015) for men and women respectively were different according to age. mostparticipants chose the answer “i don’t know” in the reproductive health literacy questionnaire.conclusion: because of insufficient health literacy of men about infertility, educational planningin this area seems essential.