Looking back: egg donors' retrospective evaluations of their motivations, expectations, and experiences during their first donation cycle

Kenney, Nancy J.; McGowan, Michelle L.

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.09.081

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“…Past work has shown women to be amenable to blood (Piliavin, 2003) and oocyte donation (Almeling, 2011;Kenney & McGowan, 2010), but has depicted the population as reluctant to actually volunteer their bodies to science (Sanner, 1994(Sanner, , 2006. Attempts to explain this disconnect have yielded mixed results.…”

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Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Asad¹,

Anteby²,

Garip³

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most likely to donate from attitudinal survey data -educated white males over 65. This focus on survey data, however, suffers from two main limitations: First, it reveals little about individuals' actual registration or donation behavior. Second, past studies' reliance on average survey measures may have concealed variation within the donor population. To address this limitation, we employ cluster analysis on all whole-body donors' data from the Universities of California at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Two donor groups emerge from the analyses: One is made of slightly younger, educated, married individuals, an overwhelming portion of whom are U.S.-born and have U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign-born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional donor groups within and beyond the group of educated and elderly white males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics -in particular, gender and migration status -shapes the configuration of the donor pool, signaling new ways to possibly increase donations.

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Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Asad¹,

Anteby²,

Garip³

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Over the last couple of decades, in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques have played a more widespread role in the range of available fertility treatments in the United States ( Kenney & McGowan, 2010). Through IVF, women are able to donate eggs to an infertile woman who cannot produce viable eggs ( Winter & Daniluk, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…emotional changes related to hormone stimulation and/or stress resulting from the donation process as a whole. ( Kenney &Mc-Gowan, 2010, p. 460) The United States is one of few countries that allow anonymous, compensated donation ( Kenney & McGowan, 2010). In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there were 16,531 fresh and frozen donor egg transfers with success rates of 55.8 percent and 34.9 percent, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Egg donors from various studies have ranged in age from 20 to 32 years at time of donation ( Kenney & McGowan, 2010;Lessor, Cervantes, O'Connor, Balmaceda, & Asch, 1993;Sachs et al, 2010), with many donors undergoing the process more than once ( Kenney & McGowan, 2010). Most donors self-identify as Caucasian or European American ( Lessor et al, 1993;Sachs et al, 2010;Schover, Collins, Quigley, Blankstein, & Kanoti, 1991), even though there is a high demand for egg donors of color ( Brulliard, 2006).…”

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“…For instance, Kenney and McGowan (2010) found that 45 percent of their sample were students when they first donated; Schover et al (1991) found that 48 percent of the sample were college graduates. Another study of 80 donors found that many were employed full-time (57.5 percent) or part-time (22.5 percent), with occupations such as general service (that is, bartender, "barista"), teacher, teaching assistant, exercise physiologist, medical assistant, tattooist, mental health caseworker, and artistic performer ( Kenney & McGowan, 2010). However, studies have found conflicting information regarding marital status and number of children.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring Motivations, Awareness of Side Effects, and Attitudes among Potential Egg Donors

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This research study surveyed prospective egg donors at orientation to (a) understand women's motivations to donate eggs, (b) assess awareness and knowledge of egg donation prior to entry into the egg donation program, and (c) explore attitudes toward egg donation. Ninetytwo women completed the questionnaire at one fertility clinic located in the Midwest between August 2011 and August 2012. Descriptive and inferential statistics as well as textual analysis were used to analyze the data. Three themes emerged regarding participant motivations: (1) altruistic, (2) financial, and (3) desire to pass on genetic material. The majority of participants were unconcerned with potential physical and psychological side effects; however, differences emerged based on motherhood status and educational level. Although potential donors felt recipients should receive some information about the donor, they tended to value privacy regarding information giving to resultant offspring. This research study has implications for social work practice, policy, and future research. It is crucial that women receive adequate procedural and side effect information prior to engaging in egg donation.

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Fully Informed Consent for Prospective Egg Donors

Cahn

Collins

2014

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Looking back: egg donors' retrospective evaluations of their motivations, expectations, and experiences during their first donation cycle

Cited by 102 publications

References 35 publications

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Exploring Motivations, Awareness of Side Effects, and Attitudes among Potential Egg Donors

Fully Informed Consent for Prospective Egg Donors

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