title: Interval sterilizations. A substitute for postpartum procedures, an example from Southeast Brazil.
abstract: From December 1979 to February 1980, data were collected on access to postpartum sterilization for all obstetric patients at a large maternity hospital in Campinas, Brazil. Of the 827 women wanting no additional children and having knowledge of sterilization, 481 (58%) reported that they wanted to be sterilized. Of these women, 226 (47%) were sterilized postpartum. One year following their deliveries, follow-up forms were administered to the women desiring sterilization, but who had not been sterilized postpartum, to determine if they had been sterilized over the course of the year. Only 13% of the women had been sterilized, but almost 75% of the women not sterilized said they were still interested in getting sterilized. Of the women interviewed, 18% either had become pregnant again since the initial survey or were currently pregnant.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil; D002585:Cesarean Section; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010298:Parity; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive; D013997:Time Factors