Clinical trial NCT06581666: Current Awareness, Perspective and Knowledge on Social Egg Freezing
Official title: Current Awareness, Perspective and Knowledge on Social Egg Freezing
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Neoplasms
Lead sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-09-03
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All patients aged from 18-60 years old, who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services in PWH and the general public will be invited to participate.

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Awareness, perspective and knowledge
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Awareness
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Factors that may affect the uptake rate
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Utilization rate
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: Pui Wah Jacqueline Chung
Study officials:
affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong
name: PUI WAH JACQUELINE CHUNG
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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