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RecruitingNCT06250231Updated Jul 31, 2024

Knowledge and Attitude Towards Fertility Among Emirati Infertile Patients

An observational study in Infertility, Female and Infertility, Male, sponsored by ART Fertility Clinics LLC. Recruiting at 2 sites in United Arab Emirates. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-07-31.

Sponsored by ART Fertility Clinics LLC · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2025, 1 year 6 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Mar 2024; still recruiting 2 years 7 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Case-only
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
400
Sex
All
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Study summary

Infertility is on the rise worldwide due to multiple reasons. Proper and timely diagnosis makes the treatment easier and more acceptable by the couple. Lack of fertility knowledge however delays necessary investigations and sometimes reduces chances of success as a consequence of a delay in patients / couples approaching infertility clinics. Assessing the fertility knowledge of the Emirati infertility patients would help us to understand better the cultural aspects of fertility, the driving forces for having children and how much patients actually know about predisposing factors for infertility. This in turn would improve counseling and possible set knowledge campaigns to increase awareness.

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Conditions studied

  • Infertility, Female
  • Infertility, Male

Keywords

  • surveys and questionnaires
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In context

Infertility

2,506 studies on the registry are indexed under Infertility; 407 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 400 is above the median of 200 across 714 observational studies indexed under Infertility.

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Lead sponsor

ART Fertility Clinics LLC is the lead sponsor of 51 studies on the registry; 20 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

The study population is the infertile patients seeking In- Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment in ART fertility clinics in Abu Dhabi

Kindly note that ART is the name of the fertility clinic and not an abbreviation

Inclusion criteria

  • United Arab Emirates nationals coming for their first consultation in ART Fertility Clinics
  • Any age group
  • males and females

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • none

Kindly note that ART is the name of the fertility clinic and not an abbreviation

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Study design

Observational model
Case-only
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
400 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • OtherNo intervention

    No intervention

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Understanding Knowledge and Attitudes of Emirati Infertility Patients Towards Fertility Issues

    A self-built survey was created to cover the different aspects of United Arab Emirates culture. The survey was pilot tested on 9 people not related to the fertility clinic for comprehension and ease of reading. The nature of the questions included would help in understanding the way the local population thinks about fertility in general given that the Emirati society is governed by certain religious and social norms and expectations. The data that will be collected by the end of this study will aid in creating certain guidelines easing the approach to infertile patients as well raising fertility awareness campaigns to encourage patients seek fertility specialist opinion early on that could potentially improve the success rates of fertility treatments.

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Haynes, D. (2016). ScholarWorks Delaying First Pregnancies: Canadian Women' s Knowledge and Perception of the Consequences. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations
  • Cramer DW, Walker AM, Schiff I. Statistical methods in evaluating the outcome of infertility therapy. Fertil Steril. 1979 Jul;32(1):80-6. PubMed 456633 ↗
  • Richardson SJ, Senikas V, Nelson JF. Follicular depletion during the menopausal transition: evidence for accelerated loss and ultimate exhaustion. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1987 Dec;65(6):1231-7. doi: 10.1210/jcem-65-6-1231. PubMed 3119654 ↗
  • Rangel EL, Castillo-Angeles M, Easter SR, Atkinson RB, Gosain A, Hu YY, Cooper Z, Dey T, Kim E. Incidence of Infertility and Pregnancy Complications in US Female Surgeons. JAMA Surg. 2021 Oct 1;156(10):905-915. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.3301. Erratum In: JAMA Surg. 2021 Oct 1;156(10):991. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.4450. PubMed 34319353 ↗
  • Blair I, Sharif AA. Population structure and the burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates. J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2012 Jun;2(2):61-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jegh.2012.04.002. Epub 2012 May 22. PubMed 23856422 ↗
  • Melado L, Vitorino R, Coughlan C, Bixio LD, Arnanz A, Elkhatib I, De Munck N, Fatemi HM, Lawrenz B. Ethnic and Sociocultural Differences in Ovarian Reserve: Age-Specific Anti-Mullerian Hormone Values and Antral Follicle Count for Women of the Arabian Peninsula. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 Oct 21;12:735116. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.735116. eCollection 2021. PubMed 34745004 ↗
  • Green KE, Smith DE. Change and continuity: childbirth and parenting across three generations of women in the United Arab Emirates. Child Care Health Dev. 2007 May;33(3):266-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00667.x. PubMed 17439440 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 31, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06250231
Lead sponsor
ART Fertility Clinics LLC
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 9, 2024
Start date
Mar 1, 2024
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 30, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 31, 2024

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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