Abstract
Background and Aims: Family planning has a controlling effect on the rate of population growth throughout the world in addition to preventing pregnancy-related health risks in women, reducing infant mortality, helping to prevent children’s congenital diseases, and improving quality of life of the family. Despite, men’s participation in family planning programs tends to promote life standards and help national development, but men do not very willing accept vasectomy. This study aimed to investigate the nursing personnel perspectives toward vasectomy barriers. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional and micro-level study was performed on 66 eligible nursing personnel who were selected by convenience sampling. Data gathering instrument was a valid and reliable questionnaire. Data analysis carried out using statistical methods such as frequencies, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and independent t- test in SPSS software with version 16. Results: According to the study findings, the mean age of the subjects was 29.32±5.64 and 60.6% of them were women with nursing bachelor and 48.5% participants were married for more than ten years and had 2 to 4 children of both sexes. According to the perspectives of nurses, the major barriers orderly included: irreversibility (62.1%), permanent infertility (56.1%), blaming by relatives and acquaintances (48.5%), and inconsistent with the existing culture in society (40.9%). Among demographic variables, there was a significant correlation only between education level with subjects' attitude (p<0.05). Discussion: According to study results, giving correct information about contraceptives and their health outcomes for target groups and changing their attitudes towards family planning barriers especially vasectomy are recommended and emphasized.
Highlights
Growing population resulting from nutritional, health, educational and environmental changes in societies, threatens human communities and is one of the major obstacles of socioeconomic growth in countries [1]
According to study findings, nursing personnel found that factors such as irreversibility of vasectomy, permanent infertility, blamed by relatives and acquaintances, and inconsistent with the culture of society were the main barriers of vasectomy adoption (Table 1)
There is no significant association between the mean scores of the attitude of both sexes regarding obstacles of vasectomy (Table 3)
Summary
Growing population resulting from nutritional, health, educational and environmental changes in societies, threatens human communities and is one of the major obstacles of socioeconomic growth in countries [1]. An estimated 375 000 Iranian underwent the procedure, raising the prevalence of vasectomy from 0% to 3.5% in the national contraceptive mix [6]. As it is mentioned in other reports, the worldwide frequency of vasectomy is still much lower than tubectomy (3%-6% versus 28%), men are going to accept more responsibility for family planning [7]. Planning has a controlling effect on the rate of population growth throughout the world in addition to preventing pregnancyrelated health risks in women, reducing infant mortality, helping to prevent children’s congenital diseases, and improving quality of life of the family. This study aimed to investigate the nursing personnel perspectives toward vasectomy barriers
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