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Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: To evaluate fertility knowledge and awareness among infertile women attending an Indian assisted fertility clinic and their understanding of the menstrual cycle, how age affects fertility and need for assisted fertility treatment. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted including...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30373587 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0669-y |
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author | Mahey, Reeta Gupta, Monica Kandpal, Shobha Malhotra, Neena Vanamail, Perumal Singh, Neeta Kriplani, Alka |
author_facet | Mahey, Reeta Gupta, Monica Kandpal, Shobha Malhotra, Neena Vanamail, Perumal Singh, Neeta Kriplani, Alka |
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description | BACKGROUND: To evaluate fertility knowledge and awareness among infertile women attending an Indian assisted fertility clinic and their understanding of the menstrual cycle, how age affects fertility and need for assisted fertility treatment. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted including 205 women seeking fertility treatment at an assisted reproductive unit between March 2017 to August 2017. Patients were interviewed with the help of structured questionnaire by a fertility counsellor. The previous studies were reviewed and a questionnaire was made according to our patient profile and sociodemographic characteristics. Knowledge and awareness was stratified according to socioeconomic status (SES). RESULTS: Most women (59%) were aged between 20 to 30 years indicating concern about their fertility and need for evaluation. More than half (63%) women were from the middle socio-economic strata. Knowledge about fertility and reproduction was low: 85% were not aware of the ovulatory period in the menstrual cycle, only 8% considered age more than 35 years as the most significant risk factor for infertility and most were unaware of when to seek treatment for infertility after trying for pregnancy. Less than half of women understood the need for assisted fertility treatment and donor oocytes in advanced age. CONCLUSIONS: Most Indian women across different SES are unaware of the effect of age on fertility. Targeted educational interventions are needed to improve knowledge regarding ideal age of fertility, factors affecting fertility potential and fertility options available for sub-fertile couples. Fertility counselling and information should be provided to young people at every contact with health care professionals. |
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spelling | pubmed-62068602018-10-31 Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study Mahey, Reeta Gupta, Monica Kandpal, Shobha Malhotra, Neena Vanamail, Perumal Singh, Neeta Kriplani, Alka BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: To evaluate fertility knowledge and awareness among infertile women attending an Indian assisted fertility clinic and their understanding of the menstrual cycle, how age affects fertility and need for assisted fertility treatment. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted including 205 women seeking fertility treatment at an assisted reproductive unit between March 2017 to August 2017. Patients were interviewed with the help of structured questionnaire by a fertility counsellor. The previous studies were reviewed and a questionnaire was made according to our patient profile and sociodemographic characteristics. Knowledge and awareness was stratified according to socioeconomic status (SES). RESULTS: Most women (59%) were aged between 20 to 30 years indicating concern about their fertility and need for evaluation. More than half (63%) women were from the middle socio-economic strata. Knowledge about fertility and reproduction was low: 85% were not aware of the ovulatory period in the menstrual cycle, only 8% considered age more than 35 years as the most significant risk factor for infertility and most were unaware of when to seek treatment for infertility after trying for pregnancy. Less than half of women understood the need for assisted fertility treatment and donor oocytes in advanced age. CONCLUSIONS: Most Indian women across different SES are unaware of the effect of age on fertility. Targeted educational interventions are needed to improve knowledge regarding ideal age of fertility, factors affecting fertility potential and fertility options available for sub-fertile couples. Fertility counselling and information should be provided to young people at every contact with health care professionals. BioMed Central 2018-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6206860/ /pubmed/30373587 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0669-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mahey, Reeta Gupta, Monica Kandpal, Shobha Malhotra, Neena Vanamail, Perumal Singh, Neeta Kriplani, Alka Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
title | Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Fertility awareness and knowledge among Indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | fertility awareness and knowledge among indian women attending an infertility clinic: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30373587 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0669-y |
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