Needs for a gender-based perimarital couples' counselling services in Iran.

All health providers with average working experience of 8.63 (SD 5.35) years participated in the study. Results demonstrated highest scores for needs related to facilities as the structure of the services (90.09 SD 13.70 per cent) and community empowerment (89.50 SD 16.67 per cent) as the necessary policy for the gender-sensitive services. We concluded that providing gender-sensitive perimarital counselling healthcare services needs to reform the process, structure and policies of the services.