BACKGROUND Few studies have been able to determine whether the likelihood of spousal violence is higher or lower among childless women compared with women who have children. This is because most studies linking childlessness and spousal violence were either qualitative or were conducted among childless women attending fertility clinics. In the fewer quantitative studies that linked childlessnes...

Abstract In their efforts to find others who share experiential reality and existential struggle, many involuntarily childless women turn Instagram engage participate in the practice of trying-to-conceive (TTC) communication. Through conceptual lens digital existence, where online are regarded as constitutive transition, we draw on ten interviews an ethnography explore some struggles that exper...

Purpose: This study aims to determine the psychosocial problems experienced by infertile women and their stigmatization statuses. 
 Methods: qualitative was conducted in Assisted Reproductive Treatment Center of a university hospital Turkey between November 2016-May 2017. Sample consisted 42 who agreed participate study. Data were collected through semi-structured “Interview Form” consisti...

BACKGROUND Patients increasingly use health portals and Web-based expert forums (ask-the-doctor services), but little is known about the specific needs of Internet users visiting such websites, the nature of their requests, or how satisfied they are with Internet health experts. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the information requests of (mostly female) patients visiting an Int...

It is often presumed that infertility is not a problem in resource-poor areas where fertility rates are high. This is challenged by consistent evidence that the consequences of childlessness are very severe in low-income countries, particularly for women. In these settings, childless women are frequently stigmatized, isolated, ostracized, disinherited and neglected by the family and local commu...