title: Fertility knowledge and awareness in oocyte donors in Spain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate motherhood intentions and awareness of the limits of fertility as related to menstrual cycle, female age, and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in oocyte-donation candidates in Spain.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study with 229 women seeking information about oocyte donation in March-October 2013. Women were interviewed by healthcare professionals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The majority of participants (95.6%) wanted to be mothers in future and 36.7% already had children. Even so, knowledge about female reproduction was low: 48.3% failed to identify the ovulation time, 48.5% missed women's fertility peak before 25, and 27.9% overestimated the age limits for ART. University education does not improve global fertility knowledge and is associated with a later intended age for childbearing (p = 0.001), which results in a twofold risk of childlessness at age of 30 (RR = 1.95, 95% CI 1.11-3.43).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that fertility knowledge is insufficient but, encouragingly, nearly 30% of interviewees were proactive in seeking information from the healthcare professionals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The future fertility of young people should be protected through educational interventions emphasizing the increasing phenomenon of age-related infertility at every point of contact with a women's health professional, for instance, when oocyte-donation candidates attend a fertility center for an information visit.
authors.affiliation: Fundació Privada EUGIN, Barcelona 08029, Spain.
authors.forename: Désirée
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: García
authors.affiliation: Clinica EUGIN, Barcelona 08029, Spain. Electronic address: rvassena@eugin.es.
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vassena
authors.affiliation: Clinica EUGIN, Barcelona 08029, Spain.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trullenque
authors.affiliation: Clinica EUGIN, Barcelona 08029, Spain.
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: Fundació Privada EUGIN, Barcelona 08029, Spain; Clinica EUGIN, Barcelona 08029, Spain.
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vernaeve
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008597:Menstrual Cycle / Q000502:physiology; D018587:Oocyte Donation; D013030:Spain
keywords: Age-related infertility; Awareness; Fertility knowledge; Motherhood; Oocyte donation