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Understanding social oocyte freezing in Italy: a scoping survey on university female students' awareness and attitudes.
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- Acceptance rates and reasons for social oocyte cryopreservation among women: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025Pooled it
- Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Acceptance and willingness-to-pay for oocyte cryopreservation in medical versus age-related fertility preservation scenarios among Swedish female university students.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Attitudes of healthcare providers towards fertility preservation in Portugal: perceived support across indications and their ethical implications.BMC medical ethics · 2026Observational
- The new ethical challenges raised by the authorization of elective egg freezing in France since 2021.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2026Article
- Age-Based Oocyte Yield in Elective Oocyte Cryopreservation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Social egg freezing among single females: Middle Eastern point of view.Obstetrics & gynecology science · 2025Article
- Who freezes her eggs and why? psychological predictors, reasons, and outcomes of social egg freezing.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2025Article
- Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of ovarian cryopreservation technology among women with ovarian diseases.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Exploring awareness and attitudes toward oocyte cryopreservation among women of reproductive age.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Women's Awareness and Knowledge of Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation at Different Sociocultural Levels: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Obstetrics and gynecology international · 2025Article
- Exploring the Fertility Needs of Women Before and After Oocyte Freezing for Medical and Non-Medical Reasons: A Scoping Review.International journal of women's health · 2025Review
- Egg Cryopreservation for Social Reasons-A Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Mapping Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of gamete donation.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Review
- Fertility knowledge, childbearing intentions and attitudes towards social egg freezing: A study of female students of a private university in Kumasi, Ghana.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Patient experience of social and medical fertility preservation fully reimbursed in France.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Article
- Mapping ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of fertility preservation.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Review
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- International attitudes towards medical and planned oocyte cryopreservation.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Article
- Balancing choice and socioeconomic realities: analyzing behavioral and economic factors in social oocyte cryopreservation decisions.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
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Abstract
In Western countries, a social trend toward delaying childbearing has been observed in women of reproductive age for the last two decades. This delay is due to different factors related to lifestyle, such as the development of a professional career or the absence of the right partner. As a consequence, women who defer childbearing may find themselves affected by age-related infertility when they decide to conceive. Fertility preservation techniques are, therefore, proposed as a solution for these women. Among all possible solutions, social freezing is an alternative strongly discussed from a scientific, social and ethical point of view.A survey among 930 female students at the University of Padova (Italy) investigated their knowledge and attitudes on social egg freezing and their potential intentions regarding this procedure. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the level of awareness of age-related infertility in Italian young women and their attitudes regarding acceptable indications for elective oocyte freezing, their potential personal use, the circumstances in which they would then decide to use cryopreserved eggs, and their attitudes towards cost coverage and oocyte donation.Data collected in this study revealed some important points about young women and their knowledge about social oocyte freezing in Italy as compared to other European countries and the United States.Overall, 34.3% of the students reported having heard about the possibility of oocyte cryopreservation for non-medical reasons and being aware of the meaning of this procedure; only 19.5% were in favour of social egg freezing and 48.4% thought that the cost for this procedure should be borne entirely by the woman herself. Regarding egg donation, the majority of students (64.9%) would not accept donating their eggs to a known woman or couple and 42.5% would instead accept donating to a biobank.Our study shows that young Italian women are significantly less aware of age-related decline in fertility and the possibility of using social egg freezing compared to their similarly situated counterparts in other Western countries.
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