Tubal sterilization or vasectomy: how do married couples make the choice?

Tubal sterilization or vasectomy: how do married couples make the choice?

To examine the relative importance of husband, wife, and couple factors as determinants of sterilization method choice. Married couples seeking sterilization interviewed before surgery and again 1 year later. Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program subscribers seeking care at the Kaiser Foundation Ho...

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Veröffentlicht in:Fertility and sterility 1991-08, Vol.56 (2), p.278-284
Hauptverfasser: Miller, Warren B., Shain, Rochelle N., Pasta, David J.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Biological and medical sciences
Birth control
Choice Behavior
Communication
Contraception Behavior
Female
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Marriage - psychology
Medical sciences
Motivation
Other methods of contraception. Sterilization
Population
Sterilization, Tubal - psychology
Vasectomy - psychology
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Zusammenfassung:To examine the relative importance of husband, wife, and couple factors as determinants of sterilization method choice. Married couples seeking sterilization interviewed before surgery and again 1 year later. Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program subscribers seeking care at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Santa Clara, California. Two hundred married women seeking a tubal sterilization and their husbands and 200 married men seeking a vasectomy and their wives. None. Sterilization method chosen. In a logistic regression model, nine predictor variables correctly classified 94.9% of 395 couples (P
ISSN:0015-0282
1556-5653
DOI:10.1016/S0015-0282(16)54485-9