Current Awareness, Perspective and Knowledge on Social Egg Freezing

Recruiting

Interventions: Other: No special intervention, all participants will be asked to complete same set of questionnaire.

Brief Summary: Hong Kong's fertility preservation service is underutilized and limited, with low awareness among clinicians and young adults. Traditional Chinese culture may lead to social stigma, preventing discussion of fertility issues. A survey aims to explore awareness, knowledge, and acceptance of oocyte cryopreservation, enabling resource allocation for a culturally acceptable public education program and a dedicated referral system to improve oocyte cryopreservation services.

Detailed Description: Hong Kong's fertility preservation service is underutilized and limited, with low awareness among clinicians and young adults. Traditional Chinese culture may lead to social stigma, preventing discussion of fertility issues. A survey aims to explore awareness, knowledge, and acceptance of oocyte cryopreservation, enabling resource allocation for a culturally acceptable public education program and a dedicated referral system to improve oocyte cryopreservation services.

The questionnaire will be in paper form and as an online survey. Potential participants will be provided with the study aim and respondent rights. Once verbal informed consent is obtained, participants will be asked to fill in the self-administered questionnaire. For the online survey, implied consent from the participants will be adopted when they complete the questionnaire on the webpage and return it to us.

In order to reach the 2 target groups, convenient sampling will be used. Questionnaires will be distributed to the patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services in PWH. For the general public, they will be recruited online via an invitation link.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Patients unable to provide consent/assent (i.e. significant psychiatric problems/cognitive delay)

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
All patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services	No special intervention, all participants will be asked to complete same set of questionnaire.	All patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services, but they will be asked to complete the same set of questionnaires.
General public	No special intervention, all participants will be asked to complete same set of questionnaire.	The general public will also be asked to complete the sane set of questionnaires.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Awareness, perspective and knowledge	through study completion, an average of 1 year	To evaluate the difference in the level of awareness, perspective and knowledge towards social egg freezing between patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services and the general public.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Awareness	through study completion, an average of 1 year	To evaluate the awareness of oocyte cryopreservation among the general public and patients
Factors that may affect the uptake rate	through study completion, an average of 1 year	To determine any factors that may affect the uptake rate of oocyte cryopreservation
Utilization rate	through study completion, an average of 1 year	To assess the utilization rate of social egg freezing

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