Study of vasectomies performed in Shahid Noorsaadat Center for Reproductive Health Education, Services, and Research, 1997-2002

Rapid population growth has been recognized as the most fundamental impediment in economic and cultural development of the world’s countries today. This underscores the importance of attention to reproduction control and family planning, and vasectomy is known as a simple and effective family planning method. We studied the vasectomies performed in Noorsaadat Center from 1997 to 2002. A descriptive study was performed on 4397 men who underwent vasectomy in Noorsaadat Center. Medical records of all of these persons were studied and intended data were transformed to data collection forms. From the total respondents, 77.9% were illiterate or had low levels of education and 2 1. 6% had high levels or university education 28.6% were self-employed, 26.8% were public sector employees, 15.9% were blue-collar workers, and 28.7% had other occupations. For 52.8% of the clients, the last child was male and for 46.6% the last child was female. The previous contraceptive method was natural method in 47.4%, condom in 17.4%, 3.1% did not use any method, and the rest used other methods. Rapid population growth, youthfulness of Iran’s population, impressionability of social, economic, cultural, and heaths indicators from population growth, and vulnerability of women from multiple pregnancies, especially the unwanted ones, necessitates serious partnership of men in family planning. Vasectomy can be a sample of this active partnership. This study has descriptively assessed the vasectomies performed from 1997 to 2002 to discover the motivation for vasectomy and identify the modes of getting to know the method, and different promoting ways for encouraging vasectomy, so that more effective steps are taken for promotion and spread of this method.