Tubal ligation regret and related risk factors: findings from a case-control study in Pernambuco State, Brazil

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Ana Bernarda Ludermir²  Kátia Maria De Melo Machado¹  Aurélio Molina Da Costa¹  Sandra Valongueiro Alves²  Thália Velho Barreto De Araújo² 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Departamento de Medicina Social Recife,Brasil

关键词: Sterilization Reversal;    Tubal Sterilization;    Family Planning;    Reversão da Esterilização;    Esterilização Tubária;    Planejamento Familiar;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X2009000600018

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A case-control study was carried out at a public teaching hospital in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil in 1997 to investigate risk factors among women who feel regret after undergoing sterilization through tubal ligation. The study compared sterilized women who had requested or undergone a tubal reversal with women who were also sterilized but had not undergone this surgery, nor had requested to do so. Women showing a significantly greater probability of regret were those sterilized at a young age, those who had not themselves made the decision to undergo surgery , those for whom the sterilization was carried out up to the 45th day after childbirth and those who had acquired knowledge about contraceptive methods after the tubal ligation procedure. Having had a deceased child, a partner with no children prior to the current union or a change of partner after the tubal sterilization procedure were also associated to the request for or submission to tubal sterilization reversal. It is necessary to assess women's psycho-socio-demographic profiles, their reasons for requesting tubal ligation and to advise the patient about family planning in order to reduce rates of post-sterilization regret.

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