Predictors of fertility quality of life (FertiQoL) in infertile women: analysis of confounding factors

Karabulut, Aysun Bay; Özkan, Sevgi; Oğuz, Nevin

doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2013.06.029

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“…On the other hand, childless brings about social isolation and decreased tolerability to treatment in women with primary infertility. This result is in agreement with Aduloju O et al (2015) (55) and Karabulut A et al (2013) (56) researches. They reported that primary infertility has a negative impact on total quality of life scores.…”

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“…On the contrary, the study of Aduloju O et al (2015) (55) in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria revealed that the younger age group obtained the lowest scores in all four domains of quality of life, but no significant difference was found. Also, the study of Karabulut A et al (2013) (56) in Denizli, Turkey revealed that the age group itself did not result in differences except in the relational domain of the core subscale, and the environment domain of treatment subscale. Although younger women feel the effect of infertility in their relationship more intensely (relational domain), a younger age did not create any difference in overall quality of life.…”

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“…This finding is in accordance with Rashidi B et al (2008) (54) who found that the duration of infertility was not significant predictors of poorer health-related quality of life. In contrast, Aduloju O et al (2015) (55) and Karabulut A et al (2013) (56) found that total quality of life was shown to decrease with prolonged duration of infertility. Also Dillu R et al (2013) (58) suggested that the level of quality of life of female partners is dependent upon the duration of infertility.…”

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“…This may be due to that highly educated infertile women would feel less stigmatized as compared to those with low education. Unlikely, Aduloju O et al (2015) (55) and Karabulut A et al (2013) (56) reported that the women with primary infertility and higher education had lower total score of quality of life.…”

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Coping Strategies and Quality of Life among Infertile Women in Damanhour City

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2017

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2017

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“…Female infertility has different psychological and social effects on their quality of life (10). Many studies that have assessed quality of life among infertile couples have found more defects in the quality of life in women than in men (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16).…”

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Quality of Life Among Fertile and Infertile Women

Amiri

Chaman

Sadeghi

et al. 2017

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background: Quality of life is an important indicator for the assessment of individual health, decision-making, and passing judgment on the overall health of the community. Objectives: This study aimed at comparing the quality of life among fertile and infertile women and the factors affecting it. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the quality of life of 511 infertile women and 1017 fertile women was assessed using the Persian Version of SF36 quality of life questionnaire in 2013. To examine the relationship between demographic variables and quality of life, chi-square test and analysis of variance were used. The relationship between the factors affecting the quality of life was evaluated using multiple regressions. Results: Almost 10.1% of the participants reported low and very low quality of life, 38.6% reported average, and 51.3% reported good or very good quality of life. No significant difference was observed in the level of quality of life in fertile and infertile women (P = 0.8). The subscale mean scores of physical functioning and physical role limitation were significantly lower, and the mean scores of mental health and general health were higher in the fertile women than in the infertile. Conclusions:The results of the present study revealed that infertile women had significantly lower mean scores in the subscales of mental health and general health than the fertile women.

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Assessing factors associated with infertility using a couple‐based approach

Karabulut

Demirtaş

Sönmez

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Intl J Gynecology & Obste

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Infertility is defined as failure to achieve clinical pregnancy after 12 months of regular sexual intercourse. 1 Emotional stress related to infertility has been shown to impair quality of life (QoL) and could play an important role in successful infertility treatment. 2To understand the burden of emotional stress, the QoL of couples experiencing infertility was examined from a dyadic perspective, and the factors affecting the QoL of men and women were evaluated comparatively.board provided ethical approval prior to data collection and informed consent was obtained from all participants. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain demographic information known to be relevant based on previous study data. 3 The FertiQoL, an internationally developed instrument for measuring infertility-specific QoL in people experiencing infertility, 4 was used to evaluate the QoL of participants, with higher scores for any subdomain indicating better QoL. FertiQoL scores were considered to be dependent variables in the present study, with all other parameters considered independent variables.Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 16.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). A two-way analysis of variance test was used to examine the influence of different categorical independent variables on FertiQoL scores, with the results stratified by gender; P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.In total, 202 couples were enrolled in the present study. The age range was 24-35 years for female participants and 28-39 years for male participants. The mean±SD duration of infertility experienced by participants was 5.0±4.9 years. The incidence of receiving psychological support (34 of 200 [17.0%] women responding vs 13 of 197 [6.6%] men responding; P=0.001) and desiring psychological support (33 of 202 [16.3%] women responding vs 13 of 198 [6.6%] men responding; P=0.003) were significantly higher among female participants, and emotional (P=0.001) and mind/body (P=0.006) FertiQoL scores were significantly lower among female participants. Two-way analysis of variance tests were used to analyze the effects of age, education, employment status, health insurance, income level, receiving psychological support, desiring psychological support, and infertility cause on the FertiQoL scores; the results were stratified by gender (Table 1). Higher emotional and mind/body FertiQoL subscale scores were recorded among male participants who were in employment in comparison with female participants (P=0.003) and compared with male participants who were unemployed (P=0.005).The present results demonstrated that, among couples experiencing infertility, QoL was higher in male participants compared with their partners; however, being unemployed was associated with decreased QoL among male participants. Female participants were more likely to utilize psychological support and to report desiring psychological support. Consequently, individualized counselling methods could be applied to individuals among couples experiencing infertility.

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Predictors of fertility quality of life (FertiQoL) in infertile women: analysis of confounding factors

Cited by 78 publications

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Coping Strategies and Quality of Life among Infertile Women in Damanhour City

Coping Strategies and Quality of Life among Infertile Women in Damanhour City

Quality of Life Among Fertile and Infertile Women

Assessing factors associated with infertility using a couple‐based approach

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