Association between the religious coping of infertile people with their own quality of life and their spouses': A correlation study in iranian infertile couples

Abstract

Background:Infertile couples have a lower quality of life (QoL) than that of the general population. Religious coping strategies (RCOPE) could affect QoL in distressing situations. The present study aimed to assess the association between the RCOPE of infertile people with their own QoL and that of their spouses'.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 infertile couples referring to Infertility Center of Qom, Iran in 2015. The data was collected using three questionnaires including Brief RCOPE scale, Short Form Health Survey, and a demographic questionnaire. p value of ≤0.05 was considered as significant level.Results:Multivariate analysis showed relationship between wives' RCOPE-N with their own QoL (β = −1.31, p < 0.001). Further, in husbands, RCOPE-P showed significant positive relationship with their own QoL (β = 0.80, p = 0.002), and their RCOPE-N had significant negative relationship with it (β = −0.61, p = 0.02). Surprisingly, wives' RCOPE-P showed negative relationship with husbands' QoL (β = −0.62, p = 0.04); whereas their RCOPE-N had no significant relationship with their husbands' QoL. In addition, neither RCOPE-P nor RCOPE-N of husbands had a significant relationship with their wives' QoL.Conclusions:In summary, we could not find an obvious and significant relationship between RCOPE of each spouse with QoL of the other spouse in infertile couples. Hence, further investigations with more participants of various religions are recommended.

Association between spirituality/religiousness and quality of life among healthy adults: a systematic review

“…In addition to young students, two studies involved infertile couples [ 38 , 39 ], and another involved a population of individuals living in a riverside community in Pantanal, Brazil [ 40 ]. The average age (34.66 years old) in these studies was higher than that of college students (22.05 years old).…”

“…As for the studies’ countries of origin, New Zealand was the country with most studies, three papers [ 30 , 37 , 41 ], followed by Brazil with two papers [ 38 , 40 ], and the remaining studies were conducted in India [ 29 ], the United States [ 42 ], China [ 43 ], South Africa [ 28 ], and Iran [ 39 ].…”

“…Three studies [ 29 , 40 , 42 ] adopted the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL), while the WHOQOL Spirituality, Religiousness, and Personal Beliefs (SRPB) was also adopted by three studies [ 30 , 37 , 41 ]. Four studies adopted instruments composed of dimensions or scales intended to assess spirituality or personal beliefs [ 28 , 38 , 39 , 43 ]. Eight studies asked the participants to report religious adherence or affiliation [ 28 – 30 , 37 , 40 – 43 ].…”

“…The WHOQOL-bref was widely used to assess QoL; eight of the ten studies adopted it [ 28 – 30 , 37 , 38 , 41 – 43 ]. Two studies adopted the Short Form Health Survey—SF-36 [ 39 ], and SF-12 [ 40 ]. All the QoL instruments were cross-culturally validated for different languages, were considered generic and related to health in general, and not necessarily to some clinical condition or a specific age range; hence these are appropriate for samples of healthy adults [ 2 ].…”

Psychological well-being of infertile women and its relationship with demographic factors and fertility history: a cross-sectional study

“…Regarding the economic status, the mean scores of the PWB of infertile women did not show a statistically significant difference in various economic status groups. In another research conducted by Dadkhahtehrani et al there was no relationship between economic status and quality of life [ 31 ]. However, in the present study, people with a favorable economic status had more PWB.…”