The effect of religious background on the attitude towards sex selection.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Surveys of the general population regarding sex selection using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis are limited and were mainly conducted in the United States and Northern Europe. In those Western societies, surveys have shown that people's interest in using sex selection techniques is encouraged by the desire for a sexually balanced family. It is important to determine attitudes to sex selection in a wider range of countries especially that cultural differences exist among countries.

Study design

A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study regarding attitudes towards sex selection for non-medical reasons was designed. One thousand five hundred participants of the reproductive age group presenting to the Women s Health Center at the American University of Beirut Me

SUBMITTER: Salame AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687399 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature