Table III.
Oocyte and sperm donors’ perceived involvement with donor offspring at 2 months and 14 months post-donation.
| 2 months post-donation |
14 months post-donation |
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| Oocyte donors |
Sperm donors |
Oocyte donors |
Sperm donors |
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| Involvement with offspring | N = 141a | % | N = 93a | % | U | P | N = 125a | % | N = 80a | % | U | P |
| If my donation did result in a child I would | ||||||||||||
| Think about the child | 5093.0 | 0.145 | 4025.5 | 0.254 | ||||||||
| Agree | 56 | 40.0 | 45 | 48.9 | 44 | 35.5 | 36 | 45.6 | ||||
| Neutral | 24 | 17.1 | 11 | 12.0 | 16 | 12.9 | 14 | 17.7 | ||||
| Disagree | 52 | 37.1 | 31 | 33.7 | 57 | 46.0 | 26 | 32.9 | ||||
| No opinion | 8 | 5.7 | 5 | 5.4 | 7 | 5.6 | 3 | 3.8 | ||||
| Like to know how the child fares in life | 4388.5 | 0.002 | 3392.5 | 0.005 | ||||||||
| Agree | 36 | 25.7 | 38 | 41.3 | 24 | 19.4 | 33 | 42.3 | ||||
| Neutral | 16 | 11.4 | 15 | 16.3 | 25 | 20.2 | 15 | 19.2 | ||||
| Disagree | 82 | 58.6 | 33 | 35.9 | 66 | 53.2 | 29 | 37.2 | ||||
| No opinion | 6 | 4.3 | 6 | 6.5 | 9 | 7.3 | 1 | 1.3 | ||||
| Feel responsible for the child if anything happened to his/her parents | 3798.0 | <0.0001 | 2265.0 | 0.003 | ||||||||
| Agree | 10 | 7.1 | 27 | 29.7 | 17 | 13.7 | 22 | 28.2 | ||||
| Neutral | 10 | 7.1 | 9 | 9.9 | 12 | 9.7 | 13 | 16.7 | ||||
| Disagree | 104 | 74.3 | 48 | 52.7 | 84 | 67.7 | 41 | 52.6 | ||||
| No opinion | 16 | 11.4 | 7 | 7.7 | 11 | 8.9 | 2 | 2.6 | ||||
| I welcome the possibility of being contacted by an offspring after 18 years | 5856.0 | 0.889 | 4223.5 | 0.685 | ||||||||
| Agree | 85 | 60.7 | 58 | 63.0 | 69 | 55.6 | 52 | 65.8 | ||||
| Neutral | 28 | 20.0 | 22 | 23.9 | 30 | 24.2 | 11 | 13.9 | ||||
| Disagree | 20 | 14.3 | 9 | 9.8 | 16 | 12.9 | 13 | 16.5 | ||||
| No opinion | 7 | 5.0 | 3 | 3.3 | 9 | 7.3 | 3 | 3.8 | ||||
The two positive and two negative response alternatives of the 5-point Likert scale were collapsed into ‘Agree’ versus ‘Disagree’. Comparisons between female and male donors were computed on the 5-point scale (excluding responses ‘No opinion’) with Mann–Whitney U-test.
aThere are missing data for one female and one male donor on all items at the 2 months and 14 months assessments; in addition, there are missing data for one male donor on one item (2 months post-donation) and two items (14 months post-donation).