fa تبیین خصوصیات خدمات بهداشت باروری دوستدار نوجوان در ایران. یک مطالعه کیفی Midwifery Orginal research <p><strong><em>Background and Objectives: </em></strong>Adolescence is the time of the transition from childhood to adulthood; but it is also a formative period of the life habits in which many of the lifestyles are learned and established. This study was done to explore the views and experiences of adolescent girls and adults in order to clarify characteristics of youth-friendly reproductive health services.</p> <p><strong><em>Materials and Methods:</em></strong> This qualitative descriptive study was conducted during the period February&ndash;November 2012. Data were collected by carrying out focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with 247 adolescent girls and 14 key adults, including school counselors and&nbsp; health providers in Mashhad and Shahroud cities. All interviews and focus group discussions were recorded on two digital recorders and were transcribed. Routine content analysis, data coding and categorization were performed by MAXQDA10.</p> <p><strong><em>Results</em></strong><strong>:</strong> The characteristics of youth-friendly reproductive health services were classified in four categories: (1) personnel factors (2) physical and environmental factors of the services providers (3) management factors and (4) stimulus factors.</p> <p><strong><em>Conclusion:</em></strong> According to the results of the study, establishing centers of reproductive health services for female adolescents of this age group can play an important role in preventing reproductive health problems them.</p> Female adolescent, Reproductive health, Youth friendly, Qualitative study 34 47 http://nmcjournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-446-1&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Mohammad Shariati محمد شریعتی shariati.ir@gmail.com 10031947532846007830 10031947532846007830 No School of medicine, Tehran University of Medicine Sciences علوم پزشکی تهران raheleh babazadeh راحله بابازاده babazadehr@mums.ac.ir 10031947532846007831 10031947532846007831 Yes Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery دانشکده پرستاری مامایی علوم پزشکی مشهد Khadigeh Mirzaii Najmabadi خدیجه میرزایی نجم آبادی k.mirzaii@gmail. com 10031947532846007832 10031947532846007832 No Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery دانشکده پرستاری مامایی علوم پزشکی مشهد Seyed Abbas Mousavi سید عباس موسوی mosavi9@yahoo.com 10031947532846007833 10031947532846007833 No School of medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences علوم پزشکی شاهرود