Table 4.
Attitude toward surrogacy distributed by Job title
| Attitude toward surrogacy |
Gender
|
Total
N (%) |
P-value * | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Nurse or
midwifery N (%) |
Medical
doctor N (%) |
Other health
professionals N (%) |
||||
| Do you support legalizing surrogacy in Jordan? |
No | 119 (85.6) | 120 (67.8) | 28 (84.8) | 267 (76.5) | < 0.001 |
| Cannot decide | 17 (12.2) | 25 (14.1) | 4 (12.1) | 46 (13.2) | ||
| Yes | 3 (2.2) | 32 (18.1) | 1 (3.0) | 36 (10.3) | ||
| I support the commercial Surrogacy |
No | 128 (91.4) | 145 (81.5) | 30 (90.9) | 303 (86.3) | 0.005 |
| Cannot decide | 12 (8.6) | 17 (9.6) | 1 (3.0) | 30 (8.5) | ||
| Yes | 0 (0.0) | 16 (9.0) | 2 (6.1) | 18 (5.1) | ||
| I support surrogacy if its free of charge (Noncommercial) |
No | 119 (85.6) | 126 (70.8) | 28 (84.8) | 273 (78.0) | < 0.001 |
| Cannot decide | 18 (12.9) | 22 (12.4) | 3 (9.1) | 43 (12.3) | ||
| Yes | 2 (1.4) | 30 (16.9) | 2 (6.1) | 34 (9.7) | ||
| Do you know the difference between genetic and organic Surrogacy? |
No | 55 (39.6) | 59 (33.3) | 10 (30.3) | 124 (35.5) | 0.416 |
| Yes | 84 (60.4) | 118 (66.7) | 23 (69.7) | 225 (64.5) | ||
| Do you Support the genetic (Egg and womb) or organic (womb only) Surrogacy? |
I don't support any of them | 131 (94.2) | 129 (73.7) | 29 (87.9) | 289 (83.3) | < 0.001 |
| Organic | 4 (2.9) | 25 (14.3) | 3 (9.1) | 32 (9.2) | ||
| Genetic | 1 (0.7) | 2 (1.1) | 1 (3.0) | 4 (1.2) | ||
| I support both if needed | 3 (2.2) | 19 (10.9) | 0 (0) | 22 (6.3) | ||
| In the event of Surrogacy, do you prefer: |
Strange donor | 54 (60.7) | 75 (64.7) | 16 (76.2) | 145 (64.2) | 0.757 |
| Friends | 9 (10.1) | 11 (9.5) | 1 (4.8) | 21 (9.3) | ||
| Relatives | 26 (29.2) | 30 (25.9) | 4 (19.0) | 60 (26.5) | ||
| The reason behind the attitude towards surrogacy motivated by: |
Religious | 113 (85.0) | 115 (67.3) | 26 (81.3) | 254 (75.6) | 0.008 |
| Social | 5 (3.8) | 20 (11.7) | 2 (6.3) | 27 (8.0) | ||
| Legal | 0 (0.0) | 8 (4.7) | 1 (3.1) | 9 (2.7) | ||
| Other | 15 (11.3) | 28 (16.4) | 3 (9.4) | 46 (13.7) | ||
| Is it possible to be more positive toward surrogacy if you know that it's the only way to have children? |
No | 87 (63.5) | 87 (50.0) | 23 (69.7) | 197 (57.3) | 0.002 |
| Cannot decide | 40 (29.2) | 48 (27.6) | 8 (24.2) | 96 (27.9) | ||
| Yes | 10 (7.3) | 39 (22.4) | 2 (6.1) | 51 (14.8) | ||
*
Chi-Square test