The psychiatric status of women presenting for infertility evaluation.

Downey, Jennifer I.; McKinney, Mary

doi:10.1037/h0079335

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“…Mit zunehmender Dauer entwickelt sich für viele Paare daraus eine schwere Lebenskrise (vgl. [47,27,8,13,15,53]). Da sich die Hoffnungen monatlich auf das Ausbleiben der Menstruation konzentrieren, besteht die emotionale Erfahrung der Sterilität aus zyklischen Wechselbädern zwischen Hoffnung, Versagensangst, Frustration und Niedergeschlagenheit [27].…”

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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Lebenszufriedenheit ungewollt kinderloser Paare und dem Behandlungsausgang nach IVF

Goldschmidt

Stöbel-Richter

Alexander³

et al. 2003

Reproduktionsmedizin

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Infertility can lead to a severe life crisis for couples, especially if this experience persists for a long time.As a consequence, several aspects of life may be affected, e.g., sexual problems, marital dissatisfaction, feelings of inferiority and guilt, or emotional disturbances.Many people turn to medical treatment with in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a last chance to get pregnant.It has been shown that couples experience not only their childlessness as a great burden, but also the medical treatment itself can be stressful.The outcome of the treatment therefore plays an important role.Unfortunately, there are few longitudinal studies focusing on the quality of life of infertile couples.Our study included 144 infertile couples assessed by a questionnaire before and 1 year after in vitro fertilization regarding quality of life.The effect of the treatment outcome (live birth of a child, no pregnancy, miscarriage) was examined for the couple in respect to their satisfaction with life. KeywordsInfertility · In vitro fertilization · Quality of life · Treatment outcome Erratum

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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Lebenszufriedenheit ungewollt kinderloser Paare und dem Behandlungsausgang nach IVF

Goldschmidt

Stöbel-Richter

Alexander³

et al. 2003

Reproduktionsmedizin

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“…Two separate studies conducted by Cwikel et al and Domar et al reported a twofold increased prevalence of depressive emotions in infertile women compared to childbearing women. The prevalence of major depressive disorder was estimated as 11% in infertile women compared to 3.9% in normal female population in a study by Downet and colleagues in 1992 (7)(8)(9). Other studies have been conducted to measure depression, hostility, and anxiety scores in infertile women, demonstrating dramatically higher scores in infertile women than those in a matched fertile population.…”

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Marital Maladjustment in Infertile Couples Who Referred to Ghadir Mother and Child Hospital, Shiraz

Sahraian¹,

Bahmanipoor²,

Amooee³

et al. 2016

Women's Health Bull

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Background: Twenty percent of married couples at reproductive age suffer from infertility. This common problem might cause significant problems in couples' mental health and quality of life. Objectives: Accordingly, the goal of the present study is to evaluate the frequency of marital maladjustment in these patients in Shiraz, Iran. Patients and Methods:This cross-sectional study was performed on 100 infertile couples (with a mean age of 33.39 ± 6) randomly selected from those referred to Ghadir Mother and Child hospital, from March 2011 to March 2012. All of them completed the dyadic adjustment scale (DAS) and a demographic questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, using frequency, percent, and t-tests. Results: All the patients declared that they had maladjustment in their marital relationship. Although the cut-off point of the questionnaire is 100, the mean score was 51.32. This maladjustment revealed no gender differences, but in the dyadic consensus score, patients who lived in urban areas and were employed had a significantly higher mean than those who resided in rural areas and were unemployed. In addition, highly educated couples had a higher level of marital adjustment. Conclusions: Marital adjustment is one of the most important factors impacted by the infertility of one or both partners. Marital adjustment impairment is affected by the social, economic, and demographic characteristics of couples. Strategies that target lifestyle modifications may improve the marital life of infertile couples and save their marriages from corruption.

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“…Medical definitions typically further distinguish between primary and secondary infertility. Some research makes the primary/secondary distinction based on conceiving versus not conceiving prior to experiencing infertility (Downey & McKinney, 1992;Larsen, 2000;Vahidi et al, 2009); other research makes the primary/secondary distinction based on the birth of a child (Epstein & Rosenberg, 2005;Nene et al, 2005;Awartani et al, 2009). In this article, we examine the effects of different primary/secondary distinctions on fertility-specific distress (FSD) and infertility help-seeking among a probability-based sample of US women of reproductive age.…”

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“…Medical dictionaries define secondary infertility as 'infertility in a patient who has previously conceived' (Anderson, 2003, p. 923), and most clinicians and reproductive endocrinologists accept this definition. Some researchers of psychosocial implications of infertility have followed their lead (Downey & McKinney, 1992;Larsen, 2000;Vahidi et al, 2009). Other researchers (Epstein & Rosenberg, 2005;Nene et al, 2005;Awartani et al, 2009) define secondary infertility as infertility in a woman who has had at least one previous child.…”

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Are prior pregnancy outcomes relevant for models of fertility-specific distress or infertility helpseeking?

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Women with prior pregnancy but no live birth are inconsistently termed as either 'primary infertile' or 'secondary infertile' in psychosocial studies of infertile women. The goal of this study was to discover whether infertile women who had experienced pregnancies but no live births were more similar in attitudes and behavior to infertile women who had not experienced pregnancies or to those who had live births. We used the National Survey of Fertility Barriers (NSFB), which contains self-reported data from a probability-based sample of US women aged between 25 and 45, to accomplish our goal. In this cross-sectional analysis, infertile women who had not experienced pregnancies were compared on the basis of fertilityspecific distress (FSD) and medical help-seeking for infertility to women who had had pregnancies with live births and women with pregnancies but no live births. Women were interviewed by telephone in their homes. Data of 1,027 women who had had an infertility episode within the past 10 years were analyzed using multiple regression and logistic regression. Infertile women who had never been pregnant experience higher levels of FSD and were more likely to seek treatment than infertile women who had been pregnant, regardless of the outcome of the pregnancy.

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The psychiatric status of women presenting for infertility evaluation.

Cited by 62 publications

References 23 publications

Zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Lebenszufriedenheit ungewollt kinderloser Paare und dem Behandlungsausgang nach IVF

Zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Lebenszufriedenheit ungewollt kinderloser Paare und dem Behandlungsausgang nach IVF

Marital Maladjustment in Infertile Couples Who Referred to Ghadir Mother and Child Hospital, Shiraz

Are prior pregnancy outcomes relevant for models of fertility-specific distress or infertility helpseeking?

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