title: [Parental project of general medicine residents from Aix-Marseille university: Theoretical knowledge in reproduction and behavior towards parenting].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analyze residents' intentions about parenting and knowledge about fertility, as well as their alleged behavior towards a diagnosis of diminished ovarian reserve.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective study with distribution of self-administered questionnaire to residents of Aix-Marseille university from June to September 2015. The questionnaire was composed of a first descriptive part including generic and personal informations about the residents and their intentions towards parenting. The second part was a 9 questions survey aimed at testing their knowledge about fertility and ovarian reserve and a final question placing them in a situation of a diminished ovarian reserve diagnosis in order to analyze their reactions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall participation rate was 53.2%, including 220 women with an average age of 27 years (SD: 1.8 years) and 116 men with an average age of 27.3 years (SD: 2.2 years). The 11.8% of female residents (n=26) already had one or more children vs.6.9% of male residents (n=8). Among the residents without children, 99% of females (n=192) and 91.7% of males (n=99) said they wanted to have children in the future, planning an average age to have their first child of 29.6 years (SD: 1.9 years) for females and 30.4 years (SD: 2.2 years) for men. Moreover, 58.3% of female residents (n=112) and 53.5% of male residents (n=53) reported that they were postponing their plan to have children after the completion of their medical studies. In a simulation of couples facing a diagnosis of diminished ovarian reserve, 73.6% of females and 61.2% of males would be ready to change their life choices and conceive a baby sooner than originally planned.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Almost all the general medicine residents have plannedto have children in the future and more than half of them postpone their parental plan after the end of their residency, although the decline of female fertility in relation to aging is widely known among them.
authors.affiliation: Département universitaire de médecine générale, faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille université, Campus Timone, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fabregue
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche EA 3279, Santé publique et maladies chroniques, laboratoire de Santé Publique, faculté de médecine, université de la Méditerranée, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moheng
authors.affiliation: Département universitaire de médecine générale, faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille université, Campus Timone, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laynet
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche EA 3279, Santé publique et maladies chroniques, laboratoire de Santé Publique, faculté de médecine, université de la Méditerranée, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France; Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, hôpital Nord, hôpital de La Conception, AP-HM, 147, boulevard Baille, 13005 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agostini
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche EA 3279, Santé publique et maladies chroniques, laboratoire de Santé Publique, faculté de médecine, université de la Méditerranée, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France; Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, hôpital Nord, hôpital de La Conception, AP-HM, 147, boulevard Baille, 13005 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Boubli
authors.affiliation: Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, hôpital Nord, hôpital de La Conception, AP-HM, 147, boulevard Baille, 13005 Marseille, France; Aix-Marseille université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon université, IMBE UMR 7263, 13397 Marseille, France. Electronic address: blandine.courbiere@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Courbiere
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D005602:France; D058006:General Practice / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D065851:Ovarian Reserve; D016487:Parenting; D011446:Prospective Studies; D043762:Reproductive Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Connaissances; Fertility; Fertilité; Internes en médecine; Knowledge; Parentalité; Parenting; Residency