Female Oncofertility Attitude and Knowledge: A Survey of Reproductive Health Professionals in Shanghai, China

Abstract

Aim: To evaluate the female oncofertility attitude and knowledge of reproductive health professionals in China. Methods: An online survey was distributed to reproductive health professionals in Shanghai, China. Results: Female professionals were more likely to consider that cancer patients would want to preserve their fertility. Participants with higher educational background tended to have a more positive attitude toward oncofertility. The majority of the participants (71.0%) obtained a fair or low level of oncofertility knowledge, and only 25.3% of them received scores at the ‘good knowledge’ level. Conclusion: There are significant gaps in the current oncofertility knowledge among reproductive health professionals in China, suggesting an urgent, unmet need for establishing an interdisciplinary fertility preservation training and service system.

Keywords::

• cancer therapy
• female oncofertility
• infertility

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Financial & competing interests disclosure

The authors would like to thank the support from the Arnold School of Public Health Start Up Fund to S Xiao, Magellan Scholar Program to S Xiao and M Kopp, and Magellan Mini Grant to S Xiao and S Johnson in the University of South Carolina. Additionally, this work was supported by the Center for Reproductive Health After Disease (P50HD076188) from the NIH National Center for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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Funding

The authors would like to thank the support from the Arnold School of Public Health Start Up Fund to S Xiao, Magellan Scholar Program to S Xiao and M Kopp, and Magellan Mini Grant to S Xiao and S Johnson in the University of South Carolina. Additionally, this work was supported by the Center for Reproductive Health After Disease (P50HD076188) from the NIH National Center for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.