[Survey of attitude and knowledge about tubal ligation and its complications in women residing in Rasht]

Introduction: contraception is a major component of preventive health care for women. Several methods are used for familly planning but tubal ligation [TL] is different from other contraceptives because often it isn't reversible.Recently,due to decrease in acceptability of TL in women,there are questions on saftey of this method

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Objective: the purpose of this stuy was to investigate attitudes and knowledge about tubal ligation and possibility of Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome in women residing in Rasht

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Materials and Methods: in this study, 403 women were collected with stratified randomized sampling. The data collection instrument consisted of a three-part questionnaire which included:[1] the demographics [2] knowledge level and [3] questions concerning the attitude. We applied the SPSS.9 statistical analysis software and Chi-square tests, pearsonian coefficient. P<0.05 was determined as statistical significance

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Results: the research showed that 45/9% of women have poor knowledge and 21% have negative attitudes about tubectomy. There were significant correlations between the number of children, education level, and information source with level of knowledge [P<0.05]. Also, there were significant correlations between variations like education level, information source and contraception methods with level of attitude [P<0.05]. Our results showed that 82/1%,41/5% and 21/8% of women believed that Pelvic and Lumbar pain, Menstrual disorders and Ovarian cyst might occur after tubal ligation respectively

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Conclusion: our research showed that many of women due to fear of tubal ligation complications [Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome] had a negative attitude. It seems that increasing the knowledge of women and more comprehensive studies are necessary for Post- Tubal Ligation syndrome about which there is no consensus yet