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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: A qualitative study of Ottawa university students’ awareness, knowledge and perceptions of infertility, infertility risk factors and assisted reproductive technologies (ART)

Characteristic

Value

Definitely want children1

Gender

female

23

15

male

16

142

Age

female age range

19-26

19-26

(mean ± SD) years

(21.6 ± 1.9)

(21.9 ± 2.1)

male age range

19-24

19-24

(mean ± SD) years

(20.4 ± 1.5)

(20.4 ± 1.6)

Ethnic/Cultural Identity 3

Canadian

19

15

African

2

2

Asian

8

5

European

4

3

Middle Eastern

6

4

  1. 1A total of ten participants did not identify a strong desire to have children: eight participants indicated they do not plan to have children (6 females, 2 males); two female participants were unsure.
  2. 2One Canadian male participant, aged 24, indicated he had one child at the time of the study and would like to have additional children.
  3. 3Ethnic Categories as follows: African (Ethiopian), Asian (Chinese, Hong Kong, Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Pakistani, Philippine); European (Finnish, British, Bulgarian, Irish, Italian), Canadian (African Canadian, Algerian-Canadian, British Canadian, Canadian, French Canadian, Hong Kong-Canadian, Persian-Canadian, Sikh-Canadian), Middle Eastern (Iranian, Kuwait, two participants provided “Middle-Eastern”, “Middle-Eastern/Arab” as their stated identity).
  4. SD- standard deviation.