调查对生育补充剂的看法和使用情况:对大型在线论坛的混合方法分析
Ana F Tomlinson1, Meghana Chapalamadugu1, Aishwarya Hombal2
1University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics
|August 13, 2025
概括
接受辅助生殖技术的患者经常在网上讨论生育补充剂,寻求提高成功率. 许多流行的补充剂缺乏强有力的证据,强调需要更好的医疗指导,以安全有效地使用它们.
科学领域:
- 生殖医学 生殖医学
- 在线健康社区 在线健康社区
- 营养科学 营养科学
背景情况:
- 辅助生殖技术 (ART) 是一个不断发展的领域,患者参与度很高.
- 患者积极在网上寻求有关其生育之旅的信息和支持.
- 生育补充剂在患者社区中得到了广泛的讨论,但它们的有效性和安全性往往不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 分析ART患者之间关于生育补充剂的在线讨论.
- 了解患者使用补充剂的动机,感知效果和寻求建议的行为.
- 为了确定这个患者群体中常见的补充剂及其所谓的用途.
主要方法:
- 混合方法,顺序探索性研究设计.
- 来自Reddit论坛"r/IVF"的公开帖子的分析.
- 补充剂使用的分类和量化,感知效应和作者特征.
主要成果:
- 分析了369个帖子,209个标识了特定的补充剂,如乌比奎农,维生素D和myo-inositol.
- 279名作者报告使用补充剂;很少有人报告积极 (9.3%) 或负面 (12.9%) 影响,而21.1%的人寻求建议.
- 常见的ART适应症包括卵巢储量减少和男性因子不孕症.
结论:
- ART患者经常使用补充剂来改善治疗结果,并积极寻求在线指导.
- 几种常讨论的补充剂只有有限的支持研究和不确定的有效性.
- 显然需要基于证据的医疗建议来指导患者在ART期间安全和适当使用补充剂.
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