1979/01/01 by Atiqur Rahman Khan, Ingrid Swenson, Azizur Rahman · 1 citation
Health Professions · Medicine · #Male Reproductive Health Studies #Reproductive Health and Technologies #Global Maternal and Child Health
paper · doi:10.1002/j.1879-3479.1979.tb00108.x
openalex publication_date 1979/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A one-year follow-up of 585 vasectomy clients sterilized at vasectomy camps in Shibpur and Shalna in rural Bangladesh showed that almost half of the clients were dissatisfied with their vasectomies. The majority of dissatisfied clients stated that their primary reasons for dissatisfaction were: (a) their ability to work had decreased and (b) they had not received all of the incentives they had been promised. However, 58% of the matched nonvasectomized controls also felt that their ability to work had decreased in the last year. Only 2%--7% of the dissatisfied clients cited decreased sexual performance as their primary reason for dissatisfaction. Satisfied vasectomy clients most frequently cited: (a) the permanence of this method of birth control and (b) the incentives they received as their reasons for satisfaction.