a School of Allied Health Sciences , De Montfort University , Leicester , UK.
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol. 2019 Jun;40(2):166-173. doi: 10.1080/0167482X.2018.1460352. Epub 2018 Apr 12.
Few qualitative studies have explored women's use of social egg freezing. Derived from an interview study of 31 participants, this article explores the motivations of women using this technology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 31 users of social egg freezing resident in UK ( = 23), USA ( = 7) and Norway ( = 1). Interviews were face to face ( = 16), through Skype and Facetime ( = 9) or by telephone ( = 6). Data were analyzed using interpretive thematic analysis. Women's use of egg freezing was shaped by fears of running out of time to form a conventional family, difficulties in finding a partner and concerns about "panic partnering", together with a desire to avoid future regrets and blame. For some women, use of egg freezing was influenced by recent fertility or health diagnoses as well as critical life events. A fifth of the participants also disclosed an underlying fertility or health issue as affecting their decision. The study provides new insights in to the complex motivations women have for banking eggs. It identifies how women's use of egg freezing was an attempt to "preserve fertility" in the absence of the particular set of "life conditions" they regarded as crucial for pursuing parenthood. It also demonstrates that few women were motivated by a desire to enhance their career and that the boundaries between egg freezing for medical and for social reasons may be more porous than first anticipated.
很少有定性研究探讨过女性对社交卵子冷冻的使用。本文源自对 31 名参与者的访谈研究，探讨了使用这项技术的女性的动机。对居住在英国（23 人）、美国（7 人）和挪威（1 人）的 31 名社交卵子冷冻用户进行了半结构化访谈。访谈方式包括面对面（16 人）、通过 Skype 和 Facetime（9 人）或电话（6 人）。使用解释性主题分析方法对数据进行了分析。女性使用卵子冷冻技术的原因是担心没有时间组建传统家庭、难以找到伴侣以及担心“恐慌式伴侣”，同时也希望避免未来的遗憾和指责。对于一些女性来说，使用卵子冷冻技术受到最近的生育或健康诊断以及关键生活事件的影响。五分之一的参与者还透露，潜在的生育或健康问题影响了他们的决定。这项研究提供了关于女性储存卵子的复杂动机的新见解。它表明，女性使用卵子冷冻技术是试图在缺乏她们认为对追求生育至关重要的特定“生活条件”的情况下“保留生育能力”。它还表明，很少有女性是出于增强职业发展的愿望而选择冷冻卵子的，而且出于医疗和社交原因而进行的卵子冷冻之间的界限可能比最初预期的更加模糊。
