J Guillou1, N Séjourné, H Chabrol. 1. Centre d'étude et de recherche en psycopathologie, octogone-CERPP, université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 31058 Toulouse, France.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This qualitative study focuses on feelings of women who receive an anonymous oocyte donation. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A heterogeneous group of 12 women who were mothers or pregnant following a oocyte donation or who were waiting for a donation took part in the study. All women participated in a face to face or a telephone semi-directive interview. Questions dealt with desire for children, feelings about difficulties to have a child, place of the oocyte donor and position about revelation of origins. RESULTS: Several key ideas about the experience of oocyte donation can be brought out from the analysis of those interviews, particularly the psychological process implied in losing one's hope for a biological child, ambivalence towards donors, and questionings about this specific mode of conception. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Women's satisfaction when the project for having a child is brought to its completion, hides neither complexity nor psychological questionings entailed by the donation process which includes a third during the conception. This study underlines the need for psychological accompaniment.
OBJECTIVES: This qualitative study focuses on feelings of women who receive an anonymous oocyte donation. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A heterogeneous group of 12 women who were mothers or pregnant following a oocyte donation or who were waiting for a donation took part in the study. All women participated in a face to face or a telephone semi-directive interview. Questions dealt with desire for children, feelings about difficulties to have a child, place of the oocyte donor and position about revelation of origins. RESULTS: Several key ideas about the experience of oocyte donation can be brought out from the analysis of those interviews, particularly the psychological process implied in losing one's hope for a biological child, ambivalence towards donors, and questionings about this specific mode of conception. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION:Women's satisfaction when the project for having a child is brought to its completion, hides neither complexity nor psychological questionings entailed by the donation process which includes a third during the conception. This study underlines the need for psychological accompaniment.
Authors: Eric Scott Sills; Lyubov O Mykhaylyshyn; Ulyana S Dorofeyeva; David J Walsh; Umme Salma; Ahmed B Omar; Graham D Coull; Ileana A David; Kathy M Brickell; Olga M Tsar; Anthony Ph Walsh Journal: Reprod Health Date: 2010-08-11 Impact factor: 3.223