Race, insurance status, and desire for tubal sterilization reversal.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the independent effects of race/ethnicity and insurance status on desire for tubal sterilization reversal.


METHODS
Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected by the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).


METHODS
Interviews were conducted in person by a trained female interviewer in the participant's home.


METHODS
The NSFG is designed to represent women and men 15-44 years of age in the U.S. household population. The sample consisted of 934 women who had undergone tubal sterilization at any time before being interviewed.


METHODS
None.


METHODS
Desire for sterilization reversal.


RESULTS
Among women older than 30 years at time of surgery, black women were significantly more likely to desire sterilization reversal compared with white women (adjusted odds ratio, 2.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.2, 5.8). In the total cohort and in the subset of women 30 years or younger, there were no significant racial/ethnic variations in desire for sterilization reversal.


CONCLUSIONS
Among women over age 30 at the time of tubal sterilization, black women were much more likely to express desire for reversal than white women.
Borrero
Sonya B
SB
Division of General Internal Medicine, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240, USA.
Reeves
Matthew F
MF
Schwarz
Eleanor B
EB
Bost
James E
JE
Creinin
Mitchell D
MD
Ibrahim
Said A
SA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007348:Insurance, Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013243:Sterilization Reversal / Q000523:psychology; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*