Do attitudes toward disclosure in donor oocyte recipients predict the use of anonymous versus directed donation?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1009-1014

  Greenfeld, Dorothy A ^a   Greenfeld, David G ^a   Mazure, Carolyn M ^a   Keefe, David L ^b   Olive, David L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymous and directed donors; Attitudes toward disclosure; Donor oocyte recipients; Psychological characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OOCYTE DONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECIPIENT;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DIRECTED DONATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; PRIVACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TISSUE DONORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0032401005     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00379-3     Document Type: Article

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