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Table 1 Attitude toward sperm, embryo, eggs/oocyte/ovum acceptance. Detailed description of included studies for computing the prevalence of attitudes, acceptance of donor eggs, donor sperm, or donor embryos, egg recipient and sperm recipient among infertile couples globally

From: Attitude towards assisted reproductive technology: acceptance of donors eggs, sperms, and embryos as treatment of human infertility: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author, year

Study population

Study design

Study area/country

Sample size

Age/mean/median

Acceptance of donor eggs/oocyte/ovum (%)

Acceptance of donor sperm (%)

Acceptance of donor embryos (%)

Overall quality result

(Straehl et al., 2017) [38]

Infertile women

Hospital-based Cross-sectional

Brazil

69

34.5

58.0

  

High

(Daniluk and Koert, 2012) [7]

Infertile women

Community-based Cross-sectional

Canada

2000

 

24.7

31.2

20.3

High

(Daniluk and Koert, 2012) [7]

Infertile men

Community-based Cross-sectional

Canada

599

 

34

25.8

29.1

High

(Hibino et al., 2013) [13]

Infertile patients

Clinic-based cross-sectional

Japan

2007

36.3

10

10

10

Medium

(Banerjee and Singla, 2022) [16]

Infertile women

Clinic-based cross-sectional

India

594

 

19.9

19.5

15.7

High

(Banerjee and Singla, 2022) [16]

Infertile men

Clinic-based cross-sectional

India

594

 

44.1

15.2

23.7

High

(Afshani et al., 2016) [15]

Infertile men

Clinic-based cross-sectional

Iran

86

31

37.14

37.14

37.14

High

(Afshani et al., 2016) [15]

Infertile women

Clinic based cross-sectional

Iran

98

31

36.12

36.12

36.12

High

(Ahmadi and Bamdad, 2017) [14]

Public-women

Community-based Cross-sectional

Iran

276

28.8

35.4

29.3

 

Medium

(Ahmadi and Bamdad, 2017) [14]

Public-men

Community-based Cross-sectional

Iran

129

33.9

32.8

15.6

 

High

(Baccino et al., 2014) [40]

Infertile couples

Hospital-based Cross-sectional

FivMadrid, Madrid, Spain

130

 

94

94

94

High