BACKGROUND Infertile couples might experience psychological distress and suffer from impaired health-related quality of life. This study aimed to examine health-related quality of life in infertile couples receiving either in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of quality of life in infertile couples attendin...

Chlamydia trachomatis infection is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases and sperm-associated antibody could impair fertility through various mechanisms. Both factors could be correlated to affect the fertility status of women. A retrospective case-control study was performed enrolling ninety (n=90) patients with primary or secondary infertility as the case group, in addition to ...

The present study investigates cultural differences in the effects of infertility on emotional distress. The study compares emotional distress among infertile people in three samples: Turkish migrants (n = 58), Turkish people living in Western Turkey (n = 46), and Dutch people (n = 199). Participants answered structured questionnaires on self-image, blame-guilt, sexual problems, depression, anx...

PCOS is one of the commonest endocrine disorders in women of reproductive age group, cause of androgen excess in women. Prostatic specific antigen (PSA) is the most specific prostatic tumor marker in men , PSA can no longer be tumor-specific marker for only prostatic tissue, PSA may new one diagnostic tool for PCOS. Aim of study to assess the level of PSA in Sudanese women with PCOS and determi...

Infertility is a condition that affects nearly 30 percent of women aged 25-44 in the United States. Though past research has addressed the stigmatization of infertility, few have done so in the context of stigma management between fertile and infertile women. In order to assess evidence of felt and enacted stigma, we employed a thematic content analysis of felt and enacted stigma in an online i...

OBJECTIVES Women with infertility experience higher rates of psychological distress compared with their fertile counterparts. In developing countries, socio-cultural factors may aggravate this distress. We aimed to determine the prevalence of psychological distress as well as its associated socio-cultural characteristics among women attending the infertility clinic of a tertiary hospital in Nig...

Background: Infertility and its treatment as one of the most difficult experiences in life, affects the mental health and happiness of couples, especially the women. This study was conducted with the aim of comparing the happiness of infertile women and the wives of infertile men. Methods: This was a comparative cross-sectional study. The study sample included 142 women (71 infertile women and...

BACKGROUND Infertility is an emergent issue in India. Until recently, very few studies have understood the patterns and consequences of infertility in India. Family planning programs in India also viewed exclusively the patterns and determinants of overfertility rather than infertility. Furthermore, there is the lack of information about treatment seeking behavior of infertile couples. Therefor...

Background. The relationship between tubal cornual polyps and endometriosis and ovulatory disorders in infertile women is unclear. Our objective was to determine such an association from our database and review the literature. Methods. Twenty-two infertile women with tubal cornual polyps were assessed for coexistence of oligoovulation/anovulation and endometriosis with stratification for polyp ...

Background: Infertility as a stressful life crisis devastates the person’s mental health.One of the latest methods of ART is surrogacy. The unique aspects of surrogacy have led to it becoming the most controversial of all the assisted reproductive techniques in recent years and arises ethnical, moral, psychological and social issues. So this study performed with the purpose of determining the k...