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Experience with Sperm Counts Following Vasectomy
Author(s) -
THOMPSON BARBARA,
MACGREGOR J. ELIZABETH,
MacGILLIVRAY I.,
GARVIE W. H. H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1991.tb15312.x
Subject(s) - vasectomy , embarrassment , clearance , medicine , family planning , feeling , sperm , population , sample (material) , gynecology , family medicine , demography , psychology , research methodology , social psychology , andrology , urology , chemistry , environmental health , chromatography , sociology
Summary The records of Aberdeen men requesting vasectomy between 1978 and 1981 were studied and a sample of men were interviewed about 3 years after the operation; 85% completed the standard requirements for seminal analysis and were given the “all clear”; two‐thirds were cleared after sending 2 samples and usually within 20 weeks after vasectomy; 10% of men sent at least 1 sample but were never cleared and the remaining 5% ignored the requirements. Information from 70 men (63 interviews, 7 questionnaires) gave some indication of reasons, often multiple, for incomplete or non‐compliance; these included embarrassment, ambiguous feelings about having more children, inadequate understanding of reproductive physiology and blind faith in the surgeon.