Iran Journal of Nursing

  This is a descriptive comparative field study. The aim is to describe views of male nurses and teachers about increasing population and then compare the view with each other. Sample was 40 male nurses and 40 male teachers which selected by simple random sampling. The tool for data gathering was a questionnaire with three parts. The first part was demographic data, the second and third part were in turn some questions about health issues and Socio-economic issues related to increasing population. Results: both groups had the same views about issues related to increasing population. There were not significant statistical differences between views in two groups. Meanwhile finding show that there was no significant relationship between ages, literacy, the year's record of service, marital status, durance of being married and number of children with views about issues of increasing population in two groups.