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Objective(s): The fertility rate has decreased by 79% worldwide and Iran. This study was conducted to assess the attitude of childless married women towards childbearing. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. A sample of childless married women referred to the comprehensive urban health service centers of Zanjan, Iran were selected by cluster sampling method. Attitude of the participants towards childbearing was evaluated by an instrument. Finally, the data were entered into SPSS software (Version 26) and analyzed by one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: In all 220 women were studied. The findings showed that %61.4 of the participants had positive attitude at a good level, 36.4% had positive attitude at a moderate level and 2.3% had positive attitude at a low level. The mean score of attitude towards childbearing was 70.46 (SD=14.87). The findings showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the mean attitude score towards childbearing and age (p=0.788), housing status (p=0.505) and income (p=0.210). However, there were significant differences between the mean attitude score towards childbearing and educational level of the women (p>0.001) and their husbands (p0.001) and their husbands (p=0.024). Conclusions: The findings suggest that people with higher educational and employment status are less positive towards childbearing. Conducting educational and motivational programs for such couples seems essential.

Background and Objectives : Job satisfaction is one of the most important variables in organizational behavior and the key variable in organizational researches and theories as well. The aim of present investigation was to determine the level of job satisfaction among health sector staff of Tabriz Taleghani Educational Hospital. Material and Methods : This cross-sectional study was performed in 2014. Health sector staffs of Taleghani Educational Hospital were studied through census method. Data collection tool was a questionnaire based on previous studies and consisted of 3 parts: demographic information (7 items), job satisfaction (21 questions) and factors related to employee dissatisfaction (10 items). After collecting and entering data into IBM SPSS software, independent t tests, chi-square and ANOVA were applied. Results : The highest level of job satisfaction was in the field of relationship with colleagues and lowest level of job satisfaction was related to salary and benefits. The most common cause of employee dissatisfaction was pressure and stressful working environment and the least cause was the improper distribution of employees based on workload . Conclusion : According to the findings, the majority of job satisfaction among staff was at low and medium-level. Since job satisfaction is an important factor in the performance and quality of services provided by the hospital staff, it is recommended that managers and officials pay attention to defects and shortcomings and remove barriers.