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Caroline Moreau1, Jean Bouyer, Béatrice Ducot
1Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, Epidemiology, Demography, and Social Sciences, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. caroline.moreau@inserm.fr
Objective:
To estimate the probability of medical consultation for infertility during the course of a pregnancy attempt and to study its determinants.
Design:
Pregnancy-based retrospective telephone survey analyzed with a discrete time Cox model.
Setting:
Two rural counties in Brittany and Normandy, France.
Patient(S):
A random sample of 901 women from the general population aged 18-60 years reporting 1,460 pregnancy attempts resulting in a live birth between 1985 and 2000 (participation rate, 73%).
Intervention(S):
None.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Probability of medical consultation for involuntary infertility cumulated over time.
Result(S):
The cumulative probability of medical consultation for involuntary infertility among nulligravid women was 45% after 12 months of involuntary infertility and 75% after 24 months. The probability of medical consultation at any time was half that for parous women (odds ratio 0.4, 95% confidence interval 0.2-0.6). More highly educated women were more likely to have sought medical help for infertility. Only 45% of women who had sought medical advice received infertility treatment.
Conclusion(S):
Our survival approach provides a description of infertility service use during the course of a pregnancy attempt, and confirms that parity and educational level are strong predictors of medical help-seeking behaviors.
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