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1. Fertility awareness education improves fertility cycle knowledge and may reduce time-to-pregnancy in subfertile women.

Author

Mena, Gabriela P. and McLindon, Lucas A.

Subjects
*FAMILY planning, *FERTILITY clinics, *HEALTH literacy, *FERTILITY, *QUESTIONNAIRES, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *WOMEN'S health, *EDUCATIONAL outcomes
Abstract

Research suggests that low fertility awareness (FA) may be a contributing factor to infertility. The aim of this study was to determine whether education improves knowledge in FA and to explore the associations between FA knowledge and time to pregnancy (TTP). A 20-point self-administered FA questionnaire (FAQ) was completed by 180 subfertile women on their first visit to a hospital-based fertility assessment and research clinic, followed by an education session on FA. Women completed the same FAQ after receiving the education session. There was an increase in the FAQ score after the women received FA education (post-education FAQ score: mean, M = 15.68, SD = 1.8) compared with the score before the session [(pre-education FAQ score: M = 13.87, SD = 1.9), t(179)=–10.547, p < 0.001]. Pregnancy was achieved in 88 women (49%). Women with a higher post-education FAQ score (≥15 points) had a shorter TTP (M = 6.4 months, SD = 4.1) than women with post-education FAQ scores <15 [M = 8.8 months, SD = 6.0, t(86)=2.231, p = 0.028]. Greater time trying to conceive was negatively predictive of the hazard for achieving a pregnancy (b=–0.021, se = 0.008, p = 0.005), while age had no significant effect. FA knowledge in women attending a fertility clinic significantly improved after education. Higher FA may reduce TTP in subfertile women who are actively trying to conceive naturally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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2. Bioethical and Moral Perspectives in Human Reproductive Medicine.

Author

Turner, Joseph V. and McLindon, Lucas A.

Subjects
BIOETHICS, CONTRACEPTION, COUNSELING, ETHICS, FERTILITY, HORMONES, MEDICAL personnel, THERAPEUTICS, REPRODUCTIVE health
Abstract

A reductive reading of Humanae vitae seeks to limit its appeal to a ban on contraception. In truth, however, it offers a vision of human sexuality and conjugal love with broad and enduring relevance. In setting forth the intrinsic complementarity and irreducibility of the unitive and procreative dimensions of the conjugal act, Paul VI has given us a hermeneutical key for assessing many contemporary ethical dilemmas in human reproductive medicine. From this perspective, this article seeks to apply the logic of Humanae vitae to several real-life scenarios confronted by medical practitioners, educators, and ethicists working in the field of fertility and reproductive health. These include a consideration of the ethics of prescribing hormonal contraceptives, the possibilities of investigating male infertility, issues of cooperation in counseling and assisting conception in same-sex relationships, the ethics pertaining to assisted reproductive technology (ART), the contested case of prenatal adoption, and the application of double-effect reasoning. Summary: On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae vitae, this article seeks to defend its enduring relevance to modern-day society, through application of its reasoning to contemporary dilemmas in reproductive medicine. It considers real cases of the ethics of prescribing hormonal contraceptives, of investigating male infertility, of cooperating in counseling and assisting conception in same-sex relationships, of ART, of prenatal adoption, and the application of double-effect reasoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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