Analysis of Level of Awareness of Health Risks Associated with Egg Donation among Female Undergraduates of Universities in Agbani Education Zone, Enugu State, Nigeria
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Abstract
Background: Egg donation is the process by which a woman donates eggs to enable another woman to conceive as part of an assisted reproduction treatment or for biomedical/scientific research
Aim: The purpose of the study was to investigate level of awareness of health risks associated with egg donation among female undergraduates of Universities in Agbani Education Zone of Enugu State.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study involved 387 female undergraduates of universities in Agbani education zone, Enugu State. A combination of Muti-stage and systematic random sampling method were used in selecting two Universities and recruitment of 387 female undergraduates respectively for the study. Self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Data generated were analyzed using statistical package for social science version 23 and presented in frequency tables and percentage scores.
Result: The results of data analysis emanating from the study showed that Female undergraduates of universities in Agbani Education Zone of Enugu State had low level of awareness of health risks associated with egg donation. 57.36% had moderate level of awareness of physical health risks associated with egg donation, 37.61% had low level of awareness of social health risks associated with egg donation, while 39.41% had low level of awareness on mental health risks associated with egg donation. On awareness of procedure involved in egg donation, similarly low level of awareness was the case, and findings also shows that an overwhelming majority of the respondents were not familiar with the term egg donation for scientific research purposes and a little knew about egg donation for ART
Conclusion: It was concluded that there is generally low level of awareness of health risks, as well as procedures associated with Egg Donation among Female undergraduates of Universities in Agbani Education Zone of Enugu State.
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