Social Work Practice in Egg Donation Treatment
Oocyte recipient couples (Counseling and Assessment)
People who have indications for use of donor oocytes are referred to the Social Work Unit, Royan Infertility Center. The people attending social work unit, will be offered counseling services in third-party reproduction such as decision-making counseling to use a donor, grief and emotional preparation counseling by a social worker. their questions and doubts regarding genetic, legal, religious, psychological, and social issues related to treatment are also answered.

In addition, the potential recipients couples will undergo a psychosocial assessment process according to Royan guidelines.

Oocytes donors (Counseling and Assessment)
Oocyte donors are initially evaluated by a social worker in order to determine her suitability (psychosocial status) as a provider of oocytes to others. In addition, provided counseling services including information counseling and discussing different aspects of oocyte donation in counseling session such as social, emotional, social and cultural and legal aspects.

Psycho-social assessment of   oocyte donors includes: their mental health, family history, substance abuse and tendency to high-risk behaviors, motivation for donating eggs, etc. After the psycho-social approval, the donor is referred to perform the medical screening process. The process of screening and ovulation cycle of oocyte volunteers takes about two months in total.

Matching egg donors with recipients
At this stage, based on the number of donation volunteers approved in the psycho-social and medical assessment process, the recipients in the waiting list are contacted and after evaluating, if they are accepted, complete the donation contracts.