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Conference Paper: Risk awareness of multiple pregnancies and preference on potential treatment outcomes in Asian infertile women
Title | Risk awareness of multiple pregnancies and preference on potential treatment outcomes in Asian infertile women |
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Keywords | Asian infertile women Single embryo transfer Multiple pregnancies IVF Risk awareness |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | The 8th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health (ICSW 2016), Singapore, 19-23 June 2016. How to Cite? |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: Multiple pregnancy is an adverse outcome in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which prompted Western countries to limit the number of embryos transferred. It is uncertain whether Asian infertile women are aware of such risks and whether their treatment decisions are influenced by such awareness, or lack thereof.
METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 246 Chinese female patients who had failed IVF treatment at a local hospital fertility clinic (response rate: 51.6%). They estimated risks associated with multiple pregnancies and ranked preference on potential treatment outcomes.
FINDINGS: Respondents mean age was 37.2 (SD = 3.4), and had 3.2 years of ART treatments. Comparing against local data, they achieved 52% accuracy in risk estimation: around 29% and 18% overestimating pregnancy rate of single embryo (SET) and multiple embryo transfer (SET). While 60% desired for one child, 73% preferred having triplets or quadruplets to negative pregnancy outcome. Their risk awareness are not different than those who preferred negative outcome to multiple pregnancy.
IMPLICATIONS: Despite awareness of possible risks, most infertile women preferred multiple pregnancies over negative pregnancy outcome. This suggests information gap may not be the reason for their treatment preference. |
Description | Conference Theme: Enhancing Human Condition: Negotiating and Creating Change Poster Presentation: Health and social policies |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/233200 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, CHY | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tam, MYJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, QS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-20T05:35:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-09-20T05:35:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 8th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health (ICSW 2016), Singapore, 19-23 June 2016. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/233200 | - |
dc.description | Conference Theme: Enhancing Human Condition: Negotiating and Creating Change | - |
dc.description | Poster Presentation: Health and social policies | - |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: Multiple pregnancy is an adverse outcome in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which prompted Western countries to limit the number of embryos transferred. It is uncertain whether Asian infertile women are aware of such risks and whether their treatment decisions are influenced by such awareness, or lack thereof. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 246 Chinese female patients who had failed IVF treatment at a local hospital fertility clinic (response rate: 51.6%). They estimated risks associated with multiple pregnancies and ranked preference on potential treatment outcomes. FINDINGS: Respondents mean age was 37.2 (SD = 3.4), and had 3.2 years of ART treatments. Comparing against local data, they achieved 52% accuracy in risk estimation: around 29% and 18% overestimating pregnancy rate of single embryo (SET) and multiple embryo transfer (SET). While 60% desired for one child, 73% preferred having triplets or quadruplets to negative pregnancy outcome. Their risk awareness are not different than those who preferred negative outcome to multiple pregnancy. IMPLICATIONS: Despite awareness of possible risks, most infertile women preferred multiple pregnancies over negative pregnancy outcome. This suggests information gap may not be the reason for their treatment preference. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, ICSW 2016 | - |
dc.subject | Asian infertile women | - |
dc.subject | Single embryo transfer | - |
dc.subject | Multiple pregnancies | - |
dc.subject | IVF | - |
dc.subject | Risk awareness | - |
dc.title | Risk awareness of multiple pregnancies and preference on potential treatment outcomes in Asian infertile women | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, CHY: chancelia@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Tam, MYJ: myjtam@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wong, QS: qswong11@HKUCC-COM.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, CHY=rp00498 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 263803 | - |