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Table 6 Participants’ feelings regarding a future pregnancy according to their fatherhood status

From: Paternity in male kidney transplant recipients: a French national survey, the PATeRNAL study

Covariate

All patients (n = 1332)

Patients without children after KT (n = 1100)

Patients having fathered after KT (n = 232)

Future desire to father a child, n (%, [95% CI])

175 (13%, [11–15])

119 (11%, [9–13])

56 (24%, [19–30])

Anxiety regarding a future pregnancy, n (%, [95% CI])

140 (11%, [9–12])

106 (10%, [8–12])

34 (15%, [10–20])

Treatment modification to prepare for pregnancy, n (%, [95% CI])

50 (4%, [3–5])

34 (3%, [2–4])

16 (7%, [4–11])

  1. KT kidney transplant