Table 3.

Distribution of Participants’ Opinions About Vasectomy Use According to Gender (N = 296^a; Gaziantep, Turkey, 2013).

	Gender							p
	Women		Men		Total
Opinions	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ2
Participant has heard about vasectomy (n = 700)
Yes	138	39.4	158	45.1	296	42.3	2.341	.146
No	212	60.6	192	54.9	404	57.7
Participant sees vasectomy as a safe contraceptive method
Yes	113b	81.9	73	46.2	186	62.8	95.813	.000*
No	25	18.1	7	4.4	32	10.8
Do not know	0	0.0	78	49.4	78	26.4
Participant sees vasectomy as a difficult procedure
Easy	41	29.7	33	20.9	74	25.0	8.995	.000*
Difficult	39	28.3	31	19.6	70	23.6
Do not know	58	42.0	94b	59.5	152	51.4
Current environment includes people who have adverse reaction toward vasectomy
Yes	82b	59.4	65	41.1	147	49.7	22.208	.000*
No	0	0.0	19	12.0	19	6.4
Do not know	56	40.6	74	46.9	130	43.9
Participants’ views affected by environment that is adverse to vasectomy
Yes	116b	84.1	71	44.9	187	63.2	48.460	.000*
No	22	15.9	87	55.1	109	36.8
Willing to have vasectomy/tubal ligation
Yes	29	21.0	18	11.4	47	15.9	5.106	.000*
No	109	79.0	140b	88.6	249	84.1
Number of children required before considering vasectomy/tubal ligation (n = 71)c
3 children	17	37.0	14	56.0	31	43.7	18.652	.000*
4 children	29b	63.0	5	20.0	34	47.9
5 children and more	0	0.0	6	24.0	6	8.4
Vasectomy’s effect on men’s health
Does not affect	100b	72.5	65	41.1	165	55.7	33.808	.000*
Affects negatively	38	27.5	93	58.9	131	44.3
Vasectomy’s effect on marriage
Does not affect	124b	89.9	96	60.8	220	74.3	33.566	.000*
Affects positively	0	0.0	6	3.8	6	2.0
Affects negatively	14	10.1	56	35.4	70	23.7
Reasons given for views about negative effects (n = 70)c
Environmental	14	100.0	35b	62.5	49	70.0	7.500	.006*
Sexuality	0.0	0.0	21	37.5	21	30.0
Vasectomy’s effect on sexual health
Does not affect	133b	96.4	98	62.0	231	78.0	50.823	.000*
Affects positively	0	0.0	4	2.5	4	1.4
Affects negatively	5	3.6	56	35.4	61	20.6

^aResponses of participants who had heard vasectomy. ^bGroup forming the difference. ^cColumn totals vary by number of responses.

^*p < .05.