Making decisions about fertility : three facts GPs need to communicate to women Mazza, Danielle, Cannold, Leslie, Nagle, Cate, McKay, Fiona and Brijnath, Bianca 2012, Making decisions about fertility : three facts GPs need to communicate to women, Australian family physician, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 343-346. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads nagle-makingdecisionsabout-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 557.22KB 192 Title Making decisions about fertility : three facts GPs need to communicate to women Author(s) Mazza, Danielle Cannold, Leslie Nagle, Cate orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-6379 McKay, Fiona orcid.org/0000-0002-0498-3572 Brijnath, Bianca Journal name Australian family physician Volume number 41 Issue number 5 Start page 343 End page 346 Total pages 4 Publisher Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Place of publication South Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2012-05 ISSN 0300-8495 Keyword(s) fertility health education ethics general practice Summary Background Average annual fertility rates in industrialised countries have been below two children per woman for the past 3 decades. The reasons behind women’s childbearing behaviour are complex. However, a lack of awareness regarding the consequences of delayed childbearing and the inability of reproductive technologies to overcome the ‘biological clock’ may be contributory factors. Objective A narrative review guided by the research question: What do women need to know about the consequences of delayed childbearing in order to make informed decisions about their fertility? Discussion There are three facts that women need to know in order to make informed decisions around their fertility: Some women want to have more children than they are able to have because they postpone childbearing; there can be medical consequences to delaying childbearing and; some women’s ideas about their fertility don’t match the ‘the scientific facts’. General practitioners are well placed to play a strategic role in the provision of timely, relevant information to help women make informed decisions about their fertility. Further research is needed to identify the most appropriate ways for GPs to communicate this information. Notes Copyright to Australian Family Physician. Reproduced with permission. Permission to reproduce must be sought from the publisher, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Language eng Field of Research 111717 Primary Health Care Socio Economic Objective 920507 Women's Health HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2012, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30052294 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 06 May 2013, 14:58:39 EST Tue, 07 May 2013, 08:44:21 EST Tue, 07 May 2013, 09:49:51 EST Tue, 07 May 2013, 09:55:32 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 13:32:36 EST Tue, 10 Nov 2015, 12:44:01 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 21:01:41 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:40:33 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:29:24 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 8 times in TR Web of Science Cited 10 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 733 Abstract Views, 192 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 06 May 2013, 14:58:26 EST by Jane Moschetti