UNSATISFACTORY PSYCHOSOCIAL RESULTS OF VASECTOMY RESULTING IN MODIFICATION OF PREOPERATIVE COUNSELING

Psychosocial problems after vasectomy resulted in a change in preoperative counseling. Psychologic instability, marital problems, sexual difficulty, and anxiety because of religion became contraindications to vasectomy. Psychosocial problems after vasectomy were then reduced. Patient age under twenty years was also a contraindication. Five hundred sixty patients in the twenty to twenty-nine age group (31 per cent of the total 1,784 vasectomies performed) had vasectomies, with psychosocial problems in only 1 patient due to the young age. This was believed not to warrant a change in the age groups having vasectomy. © 1979.