Reasons for Couples to Prefer Withdrawal Method

This study was conducted in order to determine the reasons why men and women choose the withdrawal method, one of the traditional methods in preventing pregnancy. The study sample was composed of married women aged 15-49 years (150) and their partners. The study was applied in the Süleymaniye Obstetrics and Gynecology Training and Research Hospital. Data required for the research was collected during three month period of time via questionnaires on women and men, and was prepared in the light of recent literature on this subject. While analyzing the data, we used percentage, average and chi-squared testing. It was discovered that women’s knowledge on family planning methods was significantly higher than men’s (p<0.05). We found that there was a significant difference between men and women in terms of their reasons to choose withdrawal as a birth-control (p<0.05). The rate of the men who preferred withdrawal method (33.3%) was founded to be significantly higher than women (18%) (p<0.05). Although women were significantly more conscious about family planning than men, men were the ones to decide the method to use.