Current Awareness, Perspective and Knowledge on Social Egg Freezing

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Neoplasms

Treatments: Other: No special intervention, all participants will be asked to complete same set of questionnaire.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06581666

2024.346

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hong Kong's fertility preservation service is underutilized and limited, with low awareness among clinicians and young adults. Traditional Chinese culture may lead to social stigma, preventing discussion of fertility issues. A survey aims to explore awareness, knowledge, and acceptance of oocyte cryopreservation, enabling resource allocation for a culturally acceptable public education program and a dedicated referral system to improve oocyte cryopreservation services.

Full description

Hong Kong's fertility preservation service is underutilized and limited, with low awareness among clinicians and young adults. Traditional Chinese culture may lead to social stigma, preventing discussion of fertility issues. A survey aims to explore awareness, knowledge, and acceptance of oocyte cryopreservation, enabling resource allocation for a culturally acceptable public education program and a dedicated referral system to improve oocyte cryopreservation services.

The questionnaire will be in paper form and as an online survey. Potential participants will be provided with the study aim and respondent rights. Once verbal informed consent is obtained, participants will be asked to fill in the self-administered questionnaire. For the online survey, implied consent from the participants will be adopted when they complete the questionnaire on the webpage and return it to us.

In order to reach the 2 target groups, convenient sampling will be used. Questionnaires will be distributed to the patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services in PWH. For the general public, they will be recruited online via an invitation link.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• People with aged from 18-60 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Patients unable to provide consent/assent (i.e. significant psychiatric problems/cognitive delay)

Trial design

200 participants in 2 patient groups

All patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services

Description:

All patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services, but they will be asked to complete the same set of questionnaires.

Treatment:

Other: No special intervention, all participants will be asked to complete same set of questionnaire.

General public

Description:

The general public will also be asked to complete the sane set of questionnaires.

Treatment:

Other: No special intervention, all participants will be asked to complete same set of questionnaire.