Pilot testing the usability and acceptability of an online decision aid for women considering egg freezing for non-medical reasons.

The intervention is an online decision aid (DA), designed to assist women in making an informed decision about egg freezing for non-medical reasons (egg freezing). The DA was developed in accordance with the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS), and by a team of experts in fertility, psychology, women's health and decision making. Input was also provided by consumer representatives (women who had or were making a decision about egg freezing at the time of their input). The DA aims to provide women with unbiased and balanced information about egg freezing and its alternatives. The content includes information about: - The common causes of female infertility. - The relationship between female fertility and age. - The benefits and uncertainties of egg freezing at different ages. - The steps involved in the egg freezing procedure including potential risks, time commitment and costs. - The variability and unpredictability of the number of eggs collected, and the potential need for multiple cycles to obtain goal eggs numbers. - Variability of outcomes between clinics (generally), and legal limits for gamete storage. - Circumstances when frozen eggs might be used (including the use of donor sperm), and options of solo parenthood. - Evidence about the outcome for children conceived using frozen eggs. - Health, social and psychological implications of older age on pregnancy and child outcomes. The website information will be provided as text, and there are also 3 animations explaining, what impacts fertility, what egg freezing is, and what embryo freezing is. There is also a values clarification exercise to assist women to make a personalised decision. Study participants will be given access to the website by the Research team after completing an online baseline survey. They will then be asked to review the website over a two week period before providing their feedback via a second online survey. Participants are not required to spend a minimum duration reviewing the website, it is entirely up to them. There is no monitoring of adherence during the two week review period, however participants adherence to using the website is confirmed in the follow up survey as they are asked if they had read the website. Those who answer no, are then asked to go through the website before completing the rest of the survey. The follow up survey also asks participants how much of the website they read and how long it took them.