Effect of IVF failure on quality of life and emotional status in infertile couples

Abstract

Fertility-specific quality of life scores reveals better results regarding the orientation to the treatment environment in the couples with a previous IVF failure, compared to first IVF cycle couples. Treatment failure does not elevate the level of anxiety, while the effect on depression scores changes according to duration of infertility.

Assisted reproductive technology treatments and quality of life: a longitudinal study among subfertile women and men

“…This phase gives rise to uncertainties, as it is still unknown if couples will have to adjust to pregnancy and parenthood or to cope after a negative outcome, which may imply potentially improved negative mood and feelings of distress. Importantly, our results confirm once more that the number of previous unsuccessful ART attempts can increase the possibility of a worse sense of well-being for these patients [28,29,39]. Both social (SF), psychological (MH), and physical (PF and BP) dimensions of QoL seemed to be more affected by the number of failures in conceiving through ARTs, though women presented lower levels than men to each domain.…”

“…Though some studies focus on the determinants of a lower QoL during infertility treatments, including unemployment status, low income, longer duration of infertility, previous ART treatments and advanced age [26][27][28][29], most of them are mainly focused to the initial phase of the medical procedure using cross-sectional study designs. In fact, specific moments of the treatment, such as the beginning of ovarian stimulation (the moment in which patients actually start their ART treatment) and the oocyte retrieval (that is consisted in the first real application of bio-medical technologies in the treatment), seem to be closely related to increased levels of depression and anxiety [8,9].…”

Fertility quality of life tool: update on research and practice considerations

“…Unemployment was associated with lower FertiQoL scores in one study (Keramat et al, 2014) but not in two others (Goker, Yanikkerem, Birge, & Kuscu 2017;Heredia et al, 2013). Higher income level was associated with better quality of life in five studies (Karaca et al, 2016;Keramat et al, 2014;Namavar, Mansouri, Forouhari, Poordast, & Salehi, 2018;Steuber and High, 2015;Santoro et al, 2016), but not in three others (Hasson et al, 2017;Karabulut, Ozkan, & Oguz, 2013;Karabulut, Demirtas, Sonmez, Karaca, & Gok, 2017). Higher Fertility Quality of Life Tool Review 11 education was associated with better quality of life in three studies (Karabulut et al, 2013;Keramat et al, 2014;Namavar et al, 2018), and lower quality of life in two studies (Hasson et al, 2017;Porat-Katz, Paltiel, Kahane, Eldar-Geva, 2016) and no association in four others (Kahyaoglu Sut & Balkanli Kaplan, 2015;Karabulut et al, 2017;Maroufizadeh, Ghaheri, & Omani Samani, 2017b;Santoro et al, 2016).…”

“…Time trying to conceive was associated with lower FertiQoL scores in one study (Kahyaoglu Sut & Balkanli Kaplan, 2015). A longer duration of infertility was associated with poorer quality of life in five of seven studies (Karabulut et al, 2013;Karaca et al, 2016;Keramat et al, 2014;Namavar et al, 2018;Santoro et al, 2016) as was unexplained infertility (Heredia et al, 2013;Maroufizadeh et al, 2017b). In contrast secondary infertility was associated with better quality of life than primary infertility (Karabulut et al, 2013).…”

Predicting the chances of live birth for couples undergoing IVF-ICSI: a novel instrument to advise patients and physicians before treatment

“…MAR treatments are expensive, time-consuming, stressful, and may lead to anxiety, depression, or marital problems [12][13][14][15][16] . There are also complications to take into consideration such as ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, bleeding and infection, as well as multiple or premature births 17 .…”