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Self-reported behavioral and socioemotional functioning of 11- to 18-year-old adolescents conceived by in vitro
Karin Wagenaar1, Mirjam M van Weissenbruch, Flora E van Leeuwen
1Department of Medical Psychology and Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. k.wagenaar@vumc.nl
Objective:
To evaluate the self-reported psychosocial well-being of 11- to 18-year-old adolescents who were conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and examine the role of IVF conception on behavior.
Design:
Youth Self-Report (YSR) of 86 IVF and 97 control adolescents.
Setting:
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.
Patient(S):
Adolescents of ages 11 to 18 years; mean age 15.71 (± 2.06) years in IVF and 15.07 (± 2.11) years in controls.
Intervention(S):
None.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Behavior and socioemotional functioning reported by the children themselves.
Result(S):
The YSR scores were all within the normal range. No statistically significant differences were found between the IVF and control groups on the different scales.
Conclusion(S):
Behavior and socioemotional functioning as reported by 11- to 18-year-old adolescents conceived by IVF were found to be normal. Previously found reduced behavior of externalizing nature and more withdrawn/depressed behavior reported by parents and teachers could not be reproduced in this study. We found no significant influence of IVF conception on behavior in adolescence.
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