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Knowledge gaps in the understanding of fertility among non-medical graduate students

OBJECTIVE: To assess knowledge of female and male fertility among students enrolled in a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. DESIGN: Web-based cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Academic setting. PATIENT(S): Not applicable. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Knowledge of how...

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Autores principales: Bernardi, Lia A., Luck, Marissa, Kyweluk, Moira A., Feinberg, Eve C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8244259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34223241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xfre.2020.08.002
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Luck, Marissa
Kyweluk, Moira A.
Feinberg, Eve C.
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description OBJECTIVE: To assess knowledge of female and male fertility among students enrolled in a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. DESIGN: Web-based cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Academic setting. PATIENT(S): Not applicable. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Knowledge of how female and male age impacts reproduction, fecundability, and success rates with in vitro fertilization (IVF). RESULT(S): A total of 133 female and male MBA students completed the survey. Nearly 10% of participants were not aware that women are born with a fixed number of oocytes and that oocyte quantity and quality decline with age. More than 30% of participants overestimated fecundability in women aged ≥35 years, and >50% overestimated IVF success rates in women older than 40 years. Fifteen percent of participants did not know that men have stem cells in the testes, and >25% were not aware that men experience a decrease in sperm concentration and quality with age. Nearly 30% believed that a man’s age never impacts reproductive outcomes. Less than 30% of participants correctly estimated fecundability and IVF success rates based on male age. CONCLUSION(S): These data highlight important knowledge gaps in a highly educated group of MBA students, most whom desire future childbearing. Specifically, there is a lack of understanding of both male and female reproductive aging and an overestimation of treatment success. As delayed childbearing continues, particularly among those with high educational attainment, attention should be focused on introducing broad fertility education at a younger age to improve future reproductive success.
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spelling pubmed-82442592021-07-02 Knowledge gaps in the understanding of fertility among non-medical graduate students Bernardi, Lia A. Luck, Marissa Kyweluk, Moira A. Feinberg, Eve C. F S Rep Original Article OBJECTIVE: To assess knowledge of female and male fertility among students enrolled in a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. DESIGN: Web-based cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Academic setting. PATIENT(S): Not applicable. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Knowledge of how female and male age impacts reproduction, fecundability, and success rates with in vitro fertilization (IVF). RESULT(S): A total of 133 female and male MBA students completed the survey. Nearly 10% of participants were not aware that women are born with a fixed number of oocytes and that oocyte quantity and quality decline with age. More than 30% of participants overestimated fecundability in women aged ≥35 years, and >50% overestimated IVF success rates in women older than 40 years. Fifteen percent of participants did not know that men have stem cells in the testes, and >25% were not aware that men experience a decrease in sperm concentration and quality with age. Nearly 30% believed that a man’s age never impacts reproductive outcomes. Less than 30% of participants correctly estimated fecundability and IVF success rates based on male age. CONCLUSION(S): These data highlight important knowledge gaps in a highly educated group of MBA students, most whom desire future childbearing. Specifically, there is a lack of understanding of both male and female reproductive aging and an overestimation of treatment success. As delayed childbearing continues, particularly among those with high educational attainment, attention should be focused on introducing broad fertility education at a younger age to improve future reproductive success. Elsevier 2020-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8244259/ /pubmed/34223241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xfre.2020.08.002 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8244259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34223241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xfre.2020.08.002
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