Pnm-14: Knowledge and Attitude of Iranian Infertile Women toward Surrogacy

Background: Infertility as a stressful life crisis devastates the person’s mental health.One of the latest methods of ART is surrogacy. The unique aspects of surrogacy have led to it becoming the most controversial of all the assisted reproductive techniques in recent years and arises ethnical, moral, psychological and social issues. So this study performed with the purpose of determining the knowledge and attitudes of infertile women about surrogacy. Materials and Methods: This is the descriptive study done on 150 infertile women who referred to Fatemieh infertility treatment center in Hamadan city in Iran between 2010-2011 years. Samples were selected by systematic randomized method. Data gathering was on the base of questionnaire and interview. Data analyzing performed with SPSS (version 16) software. Results: The rate of using surrogacy if it was necessary was 43.33% between infertile women. Approximately half of respondent (49.3%) preferred using known surrogate mother. 68.6% of infertile women agreed with disclosure to child. 67.33% of women did not have received any educational information about surrogacy. However, only 10% of infertile women did not haveenough knowledge toward surrogacy. The positive attitudes of the infertile women toward surrogacy were 53.33%. Conclusion: Although we have good knowledge of infertile women toward surrogacy, their attitudes about this technology aren't so positive; on the other hand changing the cultural background in society for better acceptability of this method by people is needed.