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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fertil Steril. 2010 Jun 25;95(1):17–22. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.05.031

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Percentage of women who rated each factor as “very important” in influencing her decision to choose sterilization over other contraceptive methods.

Grey bars represent white women; striped bars represent African American women TS = tubal sterilization; IUD = intrauterine device

*p-values < 0.05 in unadjusted analysis

Note: “Other” unique reasons listed by women as very important were: “higher likelihood of effectiveness”, “husband would not have vasectomy”, “IUD got infected”, “cannot use an IUD”, “Essure [procedure] did not work”, “tired of taking birth control pills”, and “the doctor encouraged it”