<b>Characteristics of men submitted to a vasectomy in the service of urology of the department of medicine of the state university of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná State</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v27i2.1426

Abstract

The vasectomy is a simple, safe method and one of most efficient practical contraceptive known. There are a few information about the real characteristic of the patients who choose it. This work aims at to verify the characteristics of the patients submitted to the vasectomy in the service of Urology of the State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná State. The methodology involved the study of variable: age, race, time of union, school degree, income, knowledge of this and other methods contraceptive, the access of this population to this type of information, the decision on the operation, the marital state, the age of the children. Of the 27 analyzed patients, the majority was in the age group between 31 and 40 years, were married, have in average two children, low school degree, income of up to three minimum wages. In this way, we conclude that the knowledge of the profile of the vasectomizated patients will allow a major explanation about vasectomy, that way there will be a major of diffusion of this contraceptive method