Provider Influences on Sperm Banking Outcomes Among Adolescent Males Newly Diagnosed With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to examine provider communication and sociodemographic factors which associate with sperm banking outcomes in at-risk adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer.

Methods

A prospective single-group quasi-experimental study design was used to test the contributions of provider factors on sperm banking outcomes. Medical providers (N = 52, 86.5% oncologists) and 99 of their at-risk adolescent patients from eight leading pediatric oncology centers in North America completed questionnaires querying provider factors and patient sperm banking outcomes. Logistic regression with single covariates was used to test each provider factor as a potential correlate of the two binary sperm banking study outcomes (collection attempt/no attempt and successful

SUBMITTER: Klosky JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674772 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature