Study design and participants
chronic disease
CHRONIC DISEASE
This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 160 women of reproductive age in Qom, Iran. Participants were selected by cluster sampling. Briefly, two municipal districts were randomly selected from eight ones, and then two health centers were randomly selected from each district so that four health centers were included in the study. Finally, 40 women of reproductive age were randomly selected from each four health centers according to inclusion criteria and randomly allocated to one control (n = 80) group and one intervention (n = 80) group. Inclusion criteria were being married, having Iranian nationality, and the age of 15–49 years (all participants were above 16 years of age) and exclusion criteria were being pregnant and having a diagnosed chronic disease or condition that need to ongoing medical therapies or long-term medical care setting.Sample size was calculated considering the confidence level of 95%, Z