Motives for Desiring Children in Different Sexual-romantic Orientations

Completed

• Conditions: Family Characteristics; Sexual Orientation
• Interventions: Other: Questionaire

• Registration Number: NCT05751239
• Lead Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Brief Summary

The goal of this cross-sectional study is to compare the motives for the desire to have children in different sexual-romantic orientation. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are:

* Do all orientations have the same motives for the desire to have children?

* What are the preferred methods for having a child for the different orientations

Participants will answer an online questionaire .

Researchers will compare the different orientations to see if there are differences.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-07-03
• Primary Completion: 2018-08-30
• Study Completion: 2018-08-30
• Study First Submitted: 2023-02-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-02-20
• Status Verified: 2023-03
• Study First Posted: 2023-03-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-03-02
• Last Update Posted: 2023-03-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 837

Inclusion Criteria

• All participants regardless of sex, gender or age

Exclusion Criteria

• Incomplete questionnaire
• Under 18 years
• Caring for a child in a social, economic or educational way (self-report)

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Homosexual-homoromantic	Questionaire	People that self-identify as homosexual-homoromantic
Heterosexual-heteroromantic	Questionaire	People that self-identify as heterosexual-heteroromantic
Bisexual-Biromantic	Questionaire	People that self-identify as bisexual-biromantic
Pansexual-panromantic	Questionaire	People that self-identify as pansexual-panromantic

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Possible difference in the motive to have a child between different orientations.	At baseline in July/August 2018	The questionnaire, that was answered at baseline, included statements that people rated. There were 5 statement each for each motive and 10 additional statements

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Preferred way to have a child of the different orientations	At baseline in July/August 2018	People with positive wish for child could choose from different possibilities their preferred method (assessed via questionnaire).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, lnselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; 🇨🇭 Bern, Switzerland