Expectations Toward a Novel Male Fertility Control Method and Potential User Types: Results of a Multinational Survey‡

Abstract

Hormonal male fertility control (MFC) has already been under investigation for decades and several surveys have been conducted in this field in recent years. But still knowledge on the attitudes and expectations in males concerning MFC is limited. About one-third of all couples worldwide rely on male-dependent contraception methods and the importance of the male contribution has often been underscored. There have been many surveys about attitudes toward and practice of contraception in general but only a few concerning males opinions. First impressions have been achieved in some clinical studies. A few surveys showed results on knowledge attitudes a Now an MFC method is at an advanced stage of development and more extensive research on a multinational base has had to be conducted. The MFC study was conducted in 9 countries and 4 continents and over 9000 males were included. Based on the data collected this paper tries to describe factors associated with MFC and perceived positively and negatively and aggregate all the information into a potential characteristic of an MFC user as expected several years before a commercial drug is launched. (excerpt)