Experiences in dealing with tubal sterilization
Freitag, G.; Ahrendt, H.J.; Weise, W.
Zentralblatt für Gynakologie 114(10): 497-501
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4197 PMID: 1414066 Document Number: 395668
The political changes in the GDR and the unity of Germany give the women the possibility of deciding for tubal sterilization as a method of contraception that was restrictively used in the GDR. This investigation analysis the psychosocial and medical factors influencing the women in their decision for sterilization. 103 women were interviewed with a questionnaire before they underwent tubal sterilization in a great medical center in Sachsen-Anhalt. The findings known in the literature regarding the satisfied after sterilization were discussed. However the sterilization is an intervention that should be thought over carefully.