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To describe university students' childbearing histories, future childbearing intentions, and awareness regarding the impact of age on female fertility.

January 31, 2011The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care

Childbearing, the desire to have children, and awareness about the impact of age on female fertility among Finnish university students

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AVAira VirtalaTampere University SVSirpa VilskaUniversity of Helsinki THTeppo HuttunenFaron Pharmaceutical (Finland)

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National survey reveals low awareness of age-related female fertility decline among university students desiring children, highlighting the need for improved family planning education.

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To describe university students' childbearing histories, future childbearing intentions, and awareness regarding the impact of age on female fertility.
A national survey was administered in 2008 to 9,967 undergraduate university students aged younger than 35 years in Finland.
Responses were analyzed from 5,086 students (1,864 men and 3,222 women; overall response rate 51%) who completed questions on parity, reproductive desires, and female fertility decline.
Among respondents, 8.25% had children, while 94.0% reported a desire to have children in the future.
Over 50% of male students and approximately 33% of female students believed that a marked decrease in female fertility only begins after age 45 years.
Female students displayed greater awareness than male students regarding the relationship between increasing maternal age and declining fertility.

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Virtala et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1845f240149b897cb4cc32 https://doi.org/10.3109/13625187.2011.553295

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National survey reveals low awareness of age-related female fertility decline among university students desiring children, highlighting the need for improved family planning education.

Childbearing, the desire to have children, and awareness about the impact of age on female fertility among Finnish university students

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Childbearing, the desire to have children, and awareness about the impact of age on female fertility among Finnish university students

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