Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning
Background: Vasectomy is an effective and safe surgical method of male contraception. It is simpler than female tubal ligation and has fewer complications. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of selected demographic characteristics on female health workers’ attitudes to spou...
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| description | Background: Vasectomy is an effective and safe surgical method of male contraception. It is simpler than female tubal ligation and has fewer complications. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of selected demographic characteristics on female health workers’ attitudes to spouses’ use of vasectomy for birth controlMaterials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of female health workers in two tertiary health institutions in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria. Data were collected using a pretested structured self-administered questionnaire. Data were collected on sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes toward vasectomy. Results: Two hundred and ninety female health workers completed the questionnaire. The mean age of participants was 32.26 ± 9.39 years. Approximately 66.6% of the women were less than 35 years and 53.1% were married. Only 21.0% of the respondents would encourage their spouses or partners to undergo vasectomy after they have had their desired number of children. Half of the women (50.0%) would prefer to have their tubes tied (tubal ligation) and 63.1% had never discussed vasectomy with their spouses or partners. Younger women (<35 years) were significantly more likely to encourage their spouses/partners to have a vasectomy (odds ratio [OR] 2.1289; P = 0.0231). However, ever-married women (OR 0.1296; P = 0.0000) and women who have had children (OR 0.1767; P = 0.0000) were significantly less likely to do the same. Nurses were more likely to encourage their spouses to undertake vasectomy compared to doctors (OR 2.4750; P = 0.0041). Conclusion: Vasectomy is not widely accepted among our female health workers; only a fifth of them would encourage their spouses/partners to have a vasectomy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4482940c86384648acc7ebb83faf3b942023-01-12T12:17:00ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsInternational Journal of Medicine and Health Development2635-36952023-01-01281505310.4103/ijmh.IJMH_54_22Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planningIfeanyi E MenubaEric E AsimaduSylvester O NwezeBackground: Vasectomy is an effective and safe surgical method of male contraception. It is simpler than female tubal ligation and has fewer complications. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of selected demographic characteristics on female health workers’ attitudes to spouses’ use of vasectomy for birth controlMaterials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of female health workers in two tertiary health institutions in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria. Data were collected using a pretested structured self-administered questionnaire. Data were collected on sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes toward vasectomy. Results: Two hundred and ninety female health workers completed the questionnaire. The mean age of participants was 32.26 ± 9.39 years. Approximately 66.6% of the women were less than 35 years and 53.1% were married. Only 21.0% of the respondents would encourage their spouses or partners to undergo vasectomy after they have had their desired number of children. Half of the women (50.0%) would prefer to have their tubes tied (tubal ligation) and 63.1% had never discussed vasectomy with their spouses or partners. Younger women (<35 years) were significantly more likely to encourage their spouses/partners to have a vasectomy (odds ratio [OR] 2.1289; P = 0.0231). However, ever-married women (OR 0.1296; P = 0.0000) and women who have had children (OR 0.1767; P = 0.0000) were significantly less likely to do the same. Nurses were more likely to encourage their spouses to undertake vasectomy compared to doctors (OR 2.4750; P = 0.0041). Conclusion: Vasectomy is not widely accepted among our female health workers; only a fifth of them would encourage their spouses/partners to have a vasectomy.http://www.ijmhdev.com/article.asp?issn=2635-3695;year=2023;volume=28;issue=1;spage=50;epage=53;aulast=Menubaattitudefamily planningfemalehealth workersvasectomy |
| spellingShingle | Ifeanyi E Menuba Eric E Asimadu Sylvester O Nweze Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning International Journal of Medicine and Health Development attitude family planning female health workers vasectomy |
| title | Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning |
| title_full | Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning |
| title_short | Determinants of female health workers’ attitude toward spouses’ use of vasectomy for family planning |
| title_sort | determinants of female health workers attitude toward spouses use of vasectomy for family planning |
| topic | attitude family planning female health workers vasectomy |
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