Men’s Knowledge About Vasectomy

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200529.147How to use a DOI?

Keywords

men, knowledge, vasectomy

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyse men’s knowledge about vasectomy and respondent’s characteristics that influenced the level of knowledge. The study applied quantitative descriptive research with a cross-sectional approach. The populations in the study were all men with several criteria such as being married, actively having sex, and living in Meguwo Banguntapan Bantul. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 participants from population. The data collection tool used a questionnaire. Analysed using both descriptive and bivariate statistics. The results of the knowledge level of respondents were divided into 3 categories 29 (48.4%) high, 26 (43.3%) moderate, 5 (8.3%) low. A total of 98.3% of respondents knew the definition of vasectomy; 84.2% knew how vasectomy worked, 41.7% effectiveness, 60% profit, 56.7% loss, and 74.8% vasectomy requirements. There is significant correlation between age and knowledge level vasectomy, whereas education level, occupation and social economy didn’t have correlation with knowledge about vasectomy. Although many respondents had sufficient knowledge about vasectomy, none the respondents were interested in doing a vasectomy.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ellyda Rizki Wijhati
AU  - Suesti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - Men’s Knowledge About Vasectomy
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 705
EP  - 708
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.147
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.147
ID  - Wijhati2020
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