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Background: Among the young generation, medical and law students' attitude towards third party reproduction is very important because they will be directly involved in restricting or developing the programs that will support it in the future. The aim of this survey was to investigate attitude of law and medical students to oocyte donation and key aspects of this kind of third party
Materials and Methods: In analytical cross-sectional study, 345 medical and law students were randomly selected using stratified sampling. Data was collected using attitude toward donation- oocyte [ATOD-O] questionnaire. Re- sponses were on a 5-point Likert scale. Data were analyzed according to established statistical approach by Heeren and D'Agostino
Results: The majority of the participants agreed with oocyte donation being the last choice for infertility treatment. There was a significant difference between medical students and law students regarding the acceptance of oocyte donation [3.23 vs. 3.53, P=0.025]. In addition, female participants were more tolerant on receiving donated oocytes from their sisters than male participants [3.01 vs. 2.58, P=0.002] and finally, a higher number of the participants had a positive attitude towards anonymity of the donor and the recipient to one another [3.93 vs. 3.86, P=0.580]. The vast majority of female students believed that the oocyte recipient naturally likes that child [P<0.0001]
Conclusion: In the current study, a great majority of law and medical students support oocyte donation as an alternative way of starting a family. There is an interest among female students in donating oocytes anonymously. The majority believed that the oocyte recipient family will like the donor oocyte child naturally
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Background: Few studies have been conducted on the infertility problems in Iran. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of infertility problems and related factors in Iranian infertile patients
Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study, 405 infertile patients referred to Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran, between 2014 and 2015, were selected by simple random sampling. Participants completed the Fertility Problem Inventory [FPI] including 46 questions in five domains [social concern, sexual concern, relationship concern, rejection of parenthood, and need for parenthood]. Mean difference between male and female was verified using independent-samples Student's t test. A generalized linear model [GLM] was also used for testing the effect of variables on the fertility problems. Data was analyzed using Stata software version 13
Results: The mean age [SD] of participants was 31.28 [5.42]. Our results showed that 160 infertile men [95.23%] were classified as very high prevalence of infertility problems. Among infertile women, 83 patients [35.02%] were as very high prevalence of infertility problems, and 154 patients [64.98%] were as high prevalence. Age [P<0.001], sex [P<0.001], a history of abortion [P=0.009], failure of previous treatment [P<0.001], and education [P=0.014] had a significant relationship with FPI scores
Conclusion: Bases on the results of current study, an younger male with lower education level, history of abortion and history of previous treatments failure experienced more infertility problems