Survey of the men's attitude three years after vasectomy

ABSTRACT Despite vasectomy is one of the surest contraceptive methods with minimum complication, has been recieved reluctantly by our society. One of the various factors of this is men's knowledge deficiency about salty of vasectomy. The aim of this study is survey of the men's attitude who was underwent vasectomy after a relatively long period of their operation. This could help men who are in doubt for choosing vasectomy as a superior alternative for prevention. In this descriptive study we selected 400 men who was underwent vasectomy in Professional and Investigative Center of Family Planning in Guilan three years ago and was premanent resident of Rasht and suburb. Data collected by a questionnaire about factors influence their attitude about vasectomy. 300 (75%) of cases was reside in Rasht and 100 (25%) in suburb. 388 (97%) of cases believed that the information that they recieved before is concident with realites, 372 (93%) valued vasectomy as a better method than other contraceptive methods, 10 (2/5%) regarded vasectomy as a worse method in comparison with the methods they used before, 18 (4.8%) saw no difference between vasectomy and the method they used formerly. 398(99.5%) advised vasectomy to others. The results of this survey showed that three years after vasectomy the attitude of them was positive. So vasectomy is an ideal permanent procedure for contraception and we can advise it with surely.