Contemporary Issue: Egg Harvesting and Freezing in Women

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Table of Contents

Introduction
The purpose of the survey
The preliminary design issues
Specific instructions for administering, scoring, and interpreting survey
Conclusion
References

Introduction

This paper focuses on egg harvesting and freezing in women as a contemporary issue of interest (Rosenblum, 2014; Matthews, 2014). The attitude survey responses will assist women in employment, employers and the public to understand some critical issues surrounding the practice. The issue will guide the processes involved in creating an attitude survey.

Attitude surveys allow researchers to gather valuable data about perceptions on different issues of interests. Such survey help in collecting data that reflect facts, personal experiences, opinions and general feelings about issues of interests to humanity. Attitude surveys usually target individuals so that they can provide their personal outlook about issues. Questionnaire used must follow certain sequences or order.

The purpose of the survey

The major aim of this self-administered attitude survey is to examine personal views of individuals regarding egg harvesting and freezing in women. The survey will aid in understanding women perception about egg harvesting and freezing, employers’ points of view, the public’s perception and consequences associated with such practices. It assesses whether women should concentrate on their careers at the expense of starting and raising families.

The survey will be based on open-ended questions to allow respondents to provide deeper insights on the issue under investigation. At the same time, ranking scales will be used to determine how much respondents agree with the study questions or issues presented. The researcher aims to collect rich data through open-ended questions and ranking scales.

Evaluating the public’s attitudes and perceptions about critical contemporary issues can provide hidden insights from personal perspectives. Women who opt to harvest and freeze their eggs have greater responsibilities for families and their employers. By examining how individuals perceive such practices, one can understand how they will affect society in different ways. It is necessary to acknowledge benefits and gaps associated with egg harvesting and freezing in women. At the same time, it is important to respect individual’s right to choices.

The preliminary design issues

It is necessary to note that the attitude survey is designed to explore an abstract concept (attitude), which has a social construction and may be elusive and different across the population and thus difficult to measure.

The survey will involve interviews or will be self-administered. The researcher expects to collect rich data, but it is not clear whether data saturation (collection of data on all potential aspects of the case) will be achieved. Given the nature of data required, the major difficult was how to design questions that would elicit accurate, honest and thoughtful responses from respondents. On this note, rating scale will be used in the study (Giacomini & Cook, 2000).

Selecting the appropriate design for the study was a major challenge. In addition, developing questions that would reflect personal opinions, emotional and cognitive responses also presented difficulties. To overcome these issues, the researcher selected the Grounded Theory method for the study, which is relevant for exploring social phenomena in their contextual conditions and consequences of such activities (Spichiger, Rieder, Müller-Fröhlich, & Kesselring, 2011, p. 166).

There were issues of survey reliability and validity. The study participants would be chosen randomly while study instrument was designed to ensure that it only measured aspects related egg harvesting and freezing in women and consequences of such activities.

Specific instructions for administering, scoring, and interpreting survey

The survey will be administered through interview. Respondents will be asked open-ended questions to elicit their thoughts about egg harvesting and freezing in women. Participants will be interviewed individually and the researcher will prompt respondents to explore interesting topics about the issue as far as possible. If respondents present new information, the researcher will encourage them to continue and explore them further.

Interviews will be recorded in the space provided or tape-recorded and transcribed. The researcher will capture verbatim aspects of the responses, review and edit them for clarity and readability.

Simple frequencies will be used to determine respondents’ views on the issues. Some elements of the data will be analyzed by Excel. At the same time, data obtained from rating scale scores will be used to determine participants’ attitude toward the practice.

Grounded Theory will be used in data analysis. Data will be coded, compared and then mapped to assess data effectively in order to locate significant themes, concepts, opinions and other related dimensions of the issue under investigation. Coding and mapping will help in identification of similar themes while writing notes will facilitate the analysis process.

Data interpretation will account for the sample populations and characteristics of respondents will be presented or summarized through charts.

Findings will be based on the original purpose of the study and will be grouped in similar themes to illustrate respondents’ attitudes toward egg harvesting and freezing in women and consequences of such activities.

Conclusion

The paper focused on developing an attitude survey to explore egg harvesting and freezing in women as a contemporary issue. Attitude surveys are important for determining individuals’ opinions about an issue. Designing attitude surveys have their challenges. Researchers must overcome such challenges by developing research instruments that are valid and reliable to collect the intended data.

A study must have clear specifications on administration, scoring and interpretation. Collected data for this study will be analyzed based on the Grounded Theory method to provide insights on egg harvesting and freezing in women. The methodology was intended to provide concepts and themes from the data.

References

Giacomini, K., & Cook, D.J. (2000). Users’ guide to the medical literature. Journal of the American Medical Association, 284, 357-362.

Matthews, C. (2014). Facebook And Apple Will Pay For Women To Harvest And Freeze Their Eggs.The Huffington Post. Web.

Rosenblum, E. (2014). Later, Baby: Will Freezing Your Eggs Free Your Career? Bloomberg Businessweek. Web.

Spichiger, E., Rieder, E., Müller-Fröhlich, C., & Kesselring, A. (2011). Fatigue in patients undergoing chemotherapy, their self-care and the role of health professionals: A qualitative study. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 16(2012), 165-171. Web.

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