Faculty of Psychology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Faculty of Psychology in Sopot, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warszawa, Poland.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021 May 1;21(1):346. doi: 10.1186/s12884-021-03810-9.
The willingness to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) as an infertility treatment, as well as its psychosocial consequences for couples, may be influenced by how they perceive the attitudes of general public towards this procedure. The focus of the current study was to identify predictors of attitudes towards mothers who underwent IVF to conceive a child. Three predictors were derived from attitude components: contact with someone who had undergone IVF (behavior), moral foundations (emotions), and the level of knowledge (cognition) about IVF.
In total, 817 participants (118 male and 692 female, 7 unreported) from Poland took part in the study. Participants were asked whether they knew a person who underwent IVF, completed a Moral Foundation Questionnaire, and answered a pre-piloted IVF knowledge test. Attitudes towards women who utilised IVF were measured with a modified Bogardus Social Distance Scale. Data were analysed using hierarchical and logistic regression analyses.
The results showed that there was a weak link between previous contact with a person who underwent IVF and a positive attitude toward a woman who underwent IVF. The attitudes was also predicted by moral foundations: positively by care/harm and fairness/cheating foundations, and negatively by sanctity/degradation. Importantly, more knowledge about IVF was linked with a more positive attitude towards IVF, and this effect explained additional variance over and above moral foundations.
Our study implies the need of psychoeducation to prevent stigmatization of individuals who try IVF due to infertility.
夫妇对体外受精（IVF）治疗不孕的意愿及其对夫妇的心理社会后果，可能受到他们对公众对该程序的态度的影响。本研究的重点是确定对接受 IVF 受孕的母亲的态度的预测因素。从态度成分中得出了三个预测因素：与接受过 IVF 的人接触（行为）、道德基础（情感）和对 IVF 的了解程度（认知）。
共有 817 名来自波兰的参与者（118 名男性和 692 名女性，7 名未报告）参加了研究。参与者被问及他们是否认识接受过 IVF 的人，完成了道德基础问卷，并回答了预先制定的 IVF 知识测试。用改良的 Bogardus 社会距离量表测量对接受 IVF 的女性的态度。使用分层和逻辑回归分析对数据进行分析。
结果表明，与接受过 IVF 的人以前的接触与对接受过 IVF 的女性的积极态度之间存在微弱联系。态度还受到道德基础的预测：关怀/伤害和公平/欺骗基础呈正相关，圣洁/降级基础呈负相关。重要的是，对 IVF 的了解越多，对 IVF 的态度就越积极，这种影响解释了道德基础之外的额外差异。
我们的研究表明，需要进行心理教育，以防止因不孕而尝试 IVF 的个体受到污名化。
