目的:在一项非商业性的国家配子捐赠计划中,候选精子和卵母细胞捐献者的动机和人格特征是否因其亲子关系的不同而不同?
结论:非亲代和亲代候选捐献者在配子捐献的动机和表征以及人格特征方面存在中等差异。
背景:一些研究分析了卵母细胞或精子捐献者的动机和经历,但主要是在配子捐赠是商业交易的国家,很少有研究报告使用人格清单测试的人格特质的结果。没有研究根据父母身份专门调查候选配子捐赠者的动机和人格特征。
UNASSIGNED:在2016年11月至2018年12月期间,进行了一项前瞻性研究,包括来自法国国家精子和卵子银行网络21个中心(大学医院)的1021名候选捐赠者。
方法:总共,1021个候选配子供体被包括在研究中。在他们的第一次访问中,男性(n=488)和女性候选人捐献者(n=533)完成了一份关于社会人口统计学特征的调查问卷,他们捐赠的动机和捐赠的陈述,不孕症和家庭。其次,在线完成了对五大人格特质的NEO人格调查(NEO-PI-R)。在亲本和非亲本候选供体之间比较结果。
结果:利他主义价值观是捐赠的主要动机,而与父母身份无关。对于他们的生育能力或保存精子以供将来使用的保证,在非父母中比在父母候选供体中更常见。关于配子捐赠或家庭的代表,独立于他们的父母身份,候选捐赠者更频繁地选择社会而不是生物表征。平均个性特征在正常范围内。非父母候选人捐赠者在开放性和抑郁方面的得分高于父母,而父母候选人捐赠者比非父母表现出更多的社交性。
结论:本研究中纳入的所有候选供体均未完成人格特征清单。然而,两组之间的家庭状况没有差异(NEO-PI-R完成(n=525)或未完成),而完成NEO-PI-R的组具有较高的教育水平。这项全国性研究是在配子捐赠受到严格立法约束的国家进行的。
结论:在生殖医学商业化且配子供体资源有限的全球背景下,这项研究发现,在一个禁止经济激励的国家,配子捐赠和家庭的利他主义和社会表现是配子捐赠的主要动机。这些发现与健康政策和配子捐赠信息运动有关。
背景:来自生物说明机构的赠款,法国。作者没有任何与这项研究有关的信息。
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OBJECTIVE: In a non-commercial national gamete donation programme, do the motivations and personality characteristics of candidate sperm and oocyte donors differ according to their parenthood status?
CONCLUSIONS: Moderate differences exist between non-parent and parent candidate donors in motivations for gamete donation and representations as well as in personality characteristics.
BACKGROUND: Several studies have analysed the motivations and experiences of oocyte or sperm donors, but mainly in countries where gamete donation is a commercial transaction, and very few studies have reported results of personality traits using personality inventory tests. No study has specifically investigated the motivations and personality characteristics of candidate gamete donors according to parenthood status.
UNASSIGNED: A prospective study was carried out including 1021 candidate donors from 21 centres (in university hospitals) of the national sperm and egg banking network in France between November 2016 and December 2018.
METHODS: In total, 1021 candidate gamete donors were included in the study. During their first visit, male (n = 488) and female candidate donors (n = 533) completed a questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics, their motivations for donation and their representations of donation, infertility and family. Secondly, a NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) exploring the Big Five personality traits was completed online. Results were compared between parent and non-parent candidate donors.
RESULTS: Altruistic values were the principal motive for donation irrespective of parenthood status. Reassurance about their fertility or preservation of sperm for future use was more often reported in non-parent than in parent candidate donors. With regard to representation of gamete donation or of the family, independently of their parenthood status, candidate donors more frequently selected social rather than biological representations. Mean personality characteristics were in the normal range. Non-parent candidate donors had higher scores on openness and depression than parents, while parent candidate donors appeared more social than non-parents.
CONCLUSIONS: The personality characteristics inventory was not completed by all candidate donors included in the study. However, family status did not differ between the two groups (NEO-PI-R completed (n = 525) or not), while the group who completed the NEO-PI-R had a higher educational level. This national study was performed in a country where gamete donation is subject to strict legislation.
CONCLUSIONS: In a global context where reproductive medicine is commercialized and gamete donor resources are limited, this study found that altruism and social representations of gamete donation and family are the main motivations for gamete donation in a country which prohibits financial incentive. These findings are relevant for health policy and for gamete donation information campaigns.
BACKGROUND: Grant from the Agence de la Biomédecine, France. The authors have nothing to disclose related to this study.
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