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Table 2 Donors’ and recipients’ opinion about dual consent for using EGDs in research

From: Dual consent? Donors’ and recipients’ views about involvement in decision-making on the use of embryos created by gamete donation in research

 

Dual consent

Donors

Recipients

Total

n = 72

Disagree

n = 37

Agree

n = 35

Total

n = 175

Disagree

n = 93

Agree

n = 82

Sex, n (%)

 Female

47

27 (57.4)

20 (42.6)

109

60 (55.0)

49 (45.0)

 Male

25

10 (40.0)

15 (60.0)

66

33 (50.0)

33 (50.0)

Age, Median (P25-P75)

27.0

27.0 (25.0–31.0)

27.0 (24.0–30.0)

37.0

37.0 (34.0–40.0)

36.0 (35.0–39.0)

Educational level, n (%)

 ≤ 12th grade

31

14 (45.2)

17 (54.8)

99

55 (55.6)

44 (44.4)

 > 12th grade

41

23 (56.1)

18 (43.9)

72

35 (48.6)

37 (51.4)

Marital status, n (%)

 Married/Living with the partner

13

7 (53.8)

6 (46.2)

159

85 (53.5)

74 (46.5)

 Single/Divorced

59

30 (50.8)

29 (49.2)

15

7 (46.7)

8 (53.3)

Working status, n (%)

 Employed

40

21 (52.5)

19 (47.5)

159

80 (50.3)*

79 (49.7)*

 Othera

31

16 (51.6)

15 (48.4)

14

11 (78.6)*

3 (21.4)*

Perceived income adequacy, n (%)

 Insufficient

22

12 (54.5)

10 (45.5)

50

31 (62.0)

19 (38.0)

 Sufficient

50

25 (50.0)

25 (50.0)

124

61 (49.2)

63 (50.8)

Parental status, n (%)

 No children

58

27 (46.6)

31 (53.4)

157

86 (54.8)

71 (45.2)

 Children

14

10 (71.4)

4 (28.6)

17

6 (35.3)

11 (64.7)

Previous experience on donation, n (%)

 No

66

35 (53.0)

31 (47.0)

119

63 (52.9)

56 (47.1)

 Yes

6

2 (33.3)

4 (66.7)

56

30 (53.6)

26 (46.4)

Embryo donation for research, n (%)

 Willing

53

27 (50.9)

26 (49.1)

109

59 (54.1)

50 (45.9)

 Otherb

18

9 (50.0)

9 (50.0)

57

28 (49.1)

29 (50.9)

  1. NOTES: The total may not add up to 72 donors and 175 recipients in each variable due to missing values
  2. aUnemployed (n = 15), students (n = 29) and retired (n = 1); bParticipants who answered “very unwilling”, “unwilling” or “neither willing nor unwilling”; * p < 0.05