The Donor Conception Identity Questionnaire (DCIQ), is a psychological measure designed to assess how donorconceived individuals understand, integrate, and feel about their donor conception in relation to their identity. It has four subscales: concern and preoccupation; internalised stigma; pride and acceptance and openness and understanding.

Research using the DCIQ shows that donorconceived people vary widely in how donor conception affects their sense of self, and that these differences are meaningfully associated with mental health outcomes and decisions about searching for donors or donor siblings.

This questionnaire is available free of charge for research and educational use. We kindly request that users cite the paper below and notify the authors of their use of the scale. We welcome brief information on sample size, population, country, and any reliability or validity data, which assists in ongoing scale evaluation.

Reference

Jadva, V., Jones, C. and Zadeh, S. (2025). The Donor Conception Identity Questionnaire: associations with mental health and searching for and finding donor connections. Fertility and Sterility, 123(2), pp. 322-332. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2024.08.331