The other side of the fertility coin: a comparison of childless men’s and women’s knowledge of fertility and assisted reproductive technology

Daniluk, Judith C.; Koert, Emily

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.10.033

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“…Three demographic groups were unable to identify, without prompting, associations with male infertility; younger men may not be thinking about having children, those with lower incomes may have less exposure to fertility-related information and those who do not want to have biological children would not be concerned about their own fertility. Although Daniluk and Koert (2013) found a negligible relationship between self-reported knowledge and overall fertility awareness, our study found that a man's self-assessment of his own knowledge was an accurate indicator of his relative fertility knowledge; those who rated themselves as knowledgeable achieved higher knowledge scores than those who rated themselves as less knowledgeable. Disparate findings may be due to the different methodologies that were used to measure fertility knowledge; rather than focus on widespread beliefs, our study examined the awareness of specific associations with infertility.…”

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“…Trent et al, 2006;Bunting and Boivin, 2008;Quach and Librach, 2008;Ekelin et al, 2012). Two studies measured men's fertility knowledge using population-based samples (Bunting et al, 2013;Daniluk and Koert, 2013), though their samples were restricted to coupled individuals and childless individuals, respectively. Both surveys included a few questions about male fertility (3/13 and 4/20 questions, respectively).…”

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Men's knowledge of their own fertility: a population-based survey examining the awareness of factors that are associated with male infertility

Daumler

Chan

et al. 2016

Hum. Reprod.

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STUDY QUESTION: How knowledgeable are men about the medical, environmental and psychological factors that are associated with male infertility? SUMMARY ANSWER: Men, across most demographic groups, have limited knowledge of the various factors that are associated with male infertility.WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Few surveys have focused on men's knowledge of their own fertility. Studies of both men and women have found that men are comparatively less knowledgeable about issues of fertility and reproductive health.STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION: A regionally representative sample of Canadian men completed a web-based survey of male fertility and reproductive health, over a 2-month period in 2015.PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS: Men, aged 18-50 years, were recruited for the study. There were 701 male participants, with a mean age of 34.1 years. Each participant was asked to identify factors associated with male infertility; fertility knowledge was assessed through two open-ended questions and a comprehensive list of risk factors and attendant health issues.MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE: Men were only able to identify 51% of the risk factors and 45% of the health issues associated with male infertility. Men were most aware of the modifiable risk factors for infertility (e.g. sexually transmitted infections, smoking cigarettes), relative to their knowledge of fixed risk factors (e.g. delayed puberty, size of testicles) and the attendant health issues (e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes). The overall level of fertility knowledge did not vary by most demographic characteristics (e.g. age, education, employment, income), though men from ethnic minority groups displayed moderately greater awareness. Additionally, younger men, those with lower incomes and those who had no desire to have future biological children were more likely to identify themselves as unaware of associations with infertility in the open-ended questions. Self-reported knowledge was significantly associated with higher overall knowledge scores. More than half of the sample expressed an interest in obtaining information about male fertility and reproductive health, with the majority of these men indicating that medical professionals and online sources were their preferred methods for receiving information. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION:Participants were self-selected and required to have Internet access in order to participate. This may affect the generalizability of results. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS:Previous studies of fertility knowledge have either omitted men from their samples or when men have been included, they were asked about general fertility or women's fertility. This is the first large-scale survey that focuses solely on men's knowledge of male fertility. Insight into the areas where men's knowledge may be lacking can inform strategies for © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: j...

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Men's knowledge of their own fertility: a population-based survey examining the awareness of factors that are associated with male infertility

Daumler

Chan

et al. 2016

Hum. Reprod.

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“…As well as information about the pros and cons of egg freezing, women and men may need to be told that their "best chances of having a healthy child are through natural reproduction at a relative early age" (ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law, 2012). There is evidence that women and men tend to overestimate their own reproductive capacity and underestimate their risk of future infertility (Daniluk and Koert, 2013). In their survey of Australians of reproductive age who wanted to have children, Hammarberg et al (2013) found that the "majority of participants underestimated, by about 10 years, the age at which male and female fertility starts to decline".…”

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“…As well as underestimating their own risk of infertility, there is also evidence that women and men overestimate the likely success of fertility treatment (Bretherick et al, 2010;Maheshwari et al, 2008;Daniluk and Koert, 2013), and in particular, that they overestimate "the effectiveness of assisted reproductive treatments to overcome age-related infertility" (Wyndham et al, 2012). Taken together, this makes it especially important that potential egg freezers are not sold "false hope" , and are not encouraged in the belief that by freezing their eggs in their late thirties, they have preserved their fertility indefinitely.…”

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The ambiguities of ‘social’ egg freezing and the challenges of informed consent

Jackson

2017

BioSocieties

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Fertility clinics (and some employers) in the UK and other high-income countries have recently started to offer egg freezing to women concerned about their age-related fertility decline. Because the use of egg freezing for this purpose is new, there is no reliable evidence of its usefulness, or otherwise. There are no guarantees that egg freezing will work, and for many and perhaps most women, their frozen eggs will never be used. It is also unclear whether egg freezing is a positive development for women in general. It offers an additional choice, and it may enable some women to have genetically-related children more easily in the future. At the same time, it could be argued that egg freezing individualises and medicalises the social problem of a mismatch between female fertility and when women and men feel ready to have children. This article suggests that egg freezing is an ambiguous technology, whose benefits are as yet speculative, and that women therefore need as much clear and frank information as possible in order to navigate this new and by no means straightforward choice.

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“…Istraživanja potvrđuju da roditeljstvo objektivno više utiče na poslovnu sferu života žene, nego muškarca (Paull, 2008), što ženu dovodi u neravnopravan položaj i u stanje unutrašnjeg konflikta. S druge strane, pokazuje se da mnoge žene nisu dovoljno obaveštene o zavisnosti reproduktivne moći od uzrasta ili precenjuju svoj reproduktivni kapacitet (Chan et al, 2015;Cooke et al, 2012;Daniluk et al, 2012;Daniluk & Koert, 2013;Gossett at al., 2013;Menken et al, 1986;Virtala et al, 2011). Sličan rezultat je pokazalo istraživa-nje sprovedeno na uzorku studentkinja u Srbiji (Sedlecky et al, 2011).…”

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Relationship of motivation for motherhood with some sociodemographic variables and gender identity

Vuletić¹,

Vuletić²

2016

Psihol istra

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Sprovedeno istraživanje je eksplorativnog tipa, sa osnovnim ciljem da se ispitaju odnosi motivacije za materinstvo i sociodemografskih varijabli koje su se pokazale značajnim u istraživanjima drugih autora, kao i odnos sa konceptom rodnih uloga i rodnog identiteta, po modelu Sandre Bem. Za potrebe ostvarenja navedenog cilja kreiran je upitnik, kao prvi korak u razvoju adekvatnog instrumenta za merenje motivacije za materinstvom, pomoću kojeg je ona procenjivana u ovom istraživanju. Istraživanje je sprovedeno na uzorku od 571 ispitanika, kojeg su čini-le studentkinje viših škola i fakulteta u Beogradu. Utvrđeno je da postoje statistič-ki značajne korelacije motivacije za materinstvom sa uzrastom majke ispitanice, uzrastom majke u vreme rađanja prvog deteta i brojem ispitaničine braće i sestara. Najveća vrednost korelacije motivacije za materinstvom utvrđena je sa varijablom femininost.Ključne reči: motivacija za materinstvom, tranzicija u roditeljstvo, rodni identitet, rodne uloge, reproduktivna prava žena U Srbiji je već dugo aktuelan problem pada nataliteta i starenja društva. Vrednost stope fertiliteta je opala sa 2,26 u 1970. godini na 1,43 u 2013. godini (Vukmirović, 2014), što je nedovoljno za prosto obnavljanje populacije. Bez obzira na nesumnjivi napredak po pitanju rodne ravnopravnosti, podaci poput navedenih su, čak i u razvijenim evropskim društvima, često povod za pokretanje ozbiljnih debata o reproduktivnim pravima žena, u koja spadaju pravo na donošenje slobodne reproduktivne odluke, pravo na informisanost 1 Student doktorskih studija,

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The other side of the fertility coin: a comparison of childless men’s and women’s knowledge of fertility and assisted reproductive technology

Cited by 88 publications

References 41 publications

Men's knowledge of their own fertility: a population-based survey examining the awareness of factors that are associated with male infertility

Men's knowledge of their own fertility: a population-based survey examining the awareness of factors that are associated with male infertility

The ambiguities of ‘social’ egg freezing and the challenges of informed consent

Relationship of motivation for motherhood with some sociodemographic variables and gender identity

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