Perception of Students of Technical Health and Technical Nursing Institutes regarding Premarital Counseling

Background: Premarital counseling is a form of health promotion activities provided forcouples to help them prepare for marriage and establishment of a healthy family by buildinga strong foundation, addressing potential issues, and improving communication skills. Itinvolves discussing topics like finances, children, and values before marriage. Aim: Todetermine perception of students of Technical Health and Technical Nursing Institutesregarding premarital counseling. Subjects and method: Design: A descriptive researchdesign was used. Setting: Technical Health and Technical Nursing Institutes, Egypt.Subjects: A purposive sample of 300 students from first and second academic years ofTechnical Health and Technical Nursing Institutes. Tools: Two tools were used: Tool I:Students’ knowledge regarding premarital counseling included two parts. Part one: Sociodemographiccharacteristics. Part two: Students' knowledge regarding premaritalcounseling. Tool II: Students’ attitudes regarding premarital counseling. Results: Thecurrent study revealed that 44.3% of the studied nursing students had low level ofknowledge with 87.0% of them had positive attitudes regarding premarital counseling witha highly statistically significant relation between knowledge and attitudes regardingpremarital counseling. Conclusion and Recommendations: The studied nursing studentshad poor level of knowledge and positive attitudes regarding premarital counseling. So,health educational programs targeting students at all places and communities should beimplemented to enhance their knowledge and attitudes regarding premarital counseling.Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, and Premarital Counseling.