1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
Ups J Med Sci. 2021 Dec 31;126. doi: 10.48101/ujms.v126.8148. eCollection 2021.
Greece has a mean age of first motherhood at 31.5 years, higher than the European average age of 29.4. Delaying conception, however, may be an important non-reversible cause of infertility. The aim of this study was to identify possible knowledge deficits regarding fertility in young adults.
This was an online survey of young adults, regarding information on intention to parenthood and knowledge on issues affecting fertility. This study was conducted from February to December 2020, aiming for a representative sample of Greek men and women aged 18 and 26 years. The questionnaire was designed by a multidisciplinary group based on the Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale, which contained 22 multiple-choice or Likert-scale questions.
We obtained responses from 1875 young adults, whose mean age was 22.1 years. About 91.8% of men and 94.0% of women declared an intention to have children, out of which 44.0% wanted to have two and 29.0% three children. About 52.0 and 50.8% men and women, respectively, aimed to start a family between 31 and 35 years. Residents of rural areas and those with a lower education level more likely aimed to have children before the age of 30. The most prevalent answers for age of ideal parenthood were between 26 and 30 years for a woman and 31-35 years for a man. Smoking, alcohol consumption and sexually transmitted infections were identified as factors affecting both female and male fertility. Half of men and women, respectively, overestimated general success rates of reproductive techniques.
The knowledge of fertility, particularly with regards to assisted reproductive techniques' success rates, may be overestimated as more young adults plan for having children after the age of 30.
希腊女性的初育年龄中位数为 31.5 岁，高于欧洲 29.4 岁的平均年龄。然而，推迟受孕可能是导致不孕的一个重要不可逆转的原因。本研究旨在确定年轻人在生育方面可能存在的知识缺陷。
这是一项针对年轻人的在线调查，涉及他们对生育意愿和影响生育问题的知识。本研究于 2020 年 2 月至 12 月进行，旨在对年龄在 18 至 26 岁的希腊男性和女性进行有代表性的抽样。该问卷由一个多学科小组根据加的夫生育知识量表设计，包含 22 个多项选择或李克特量表问题。
我们收到了 1875 名年轻人的回复，他们的平均年龄为 22.1 岁。约 91.8%的男性和 94.0%的女性表示有生育孩子的意愿，其中 44.0%希望生育两个孩子，29.0%希望生育三个孩子。约 52.0%的男性和 50.8%的女性希望在 31 至 35 岁之间组建家庭。农村地区的居民和受教育程度较低的人更有可能在 30 岁之前生育孩子。最普遍的理想生育年龄回答是，女性为 26 至 30 岁，男性为 31 至 35 岁。吸烟、饮酒和性传播感染被认为是影响女性和男性生育能力的因素。分别有一半的男性和女性高估了生殖技术的总体成功率。
年轻人中越来越多人计划在 30 岁以后生育，他们对生育知识，特别是辅助生殖技术成功率的认识可能存在高估。
