BACKGROUND Successful pregnancy is the ultimate goal of almost all couples. However, this pleasant event is usually accompanied psychological and behavioral changes and can result in stress in women, particularly women who pregnant by assisted reproductive technology methods (ARTs). OBJECTIVES This study aims to determine the anxiety level during pregnancy and its relation with infertility fa...

Background This study compared common psychological symptoms and life satisfaction in husbands and wives according to infertility diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted this cross-sectional study on 248 infertile couples between November 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015 at Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran. Participants answered three questionnaires. First, they completed a demographic questi...

BACKGROUND Attachment style may influence distress and relationship satisfaction in infertile couples. Appraisal and coping have also been linked to adjustment to infertility and may be related to attachment patterns. The study examined these associations in men and women around the time of attending initial appointments at fertility clinics. METHODS Attachment, appraisal, coping, general wel...

BACKGROUND Infertility has been shown to have considerable psychological effects on the well-being of couples, especially women. Religion has been found as a resource used by infertile women to cope with their distress. Little research has examined the influence of religious coping on psychological distress among infertile women in Ghana. This study examines the relationship between positive an...

CONTEXT Infertility is regarded as a trigger for psychological morbidity. Infertile couples often suffer from anxiety, depression and lack of self confidence. AIMS To study the demographic factors associated with infertility in a tertiary care setup and to determine the level of anxiety and depression associated with it by using standardized scales. The study protocol also included studying t...

present study is aimed at evaluating the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy (rebt) on anxiety and irrational beliefs among infertile women. to assess the level of anxiety and irrational beliefs, 50 infertile women were selected randomly from mediwave ivf and fertility research hospital in mysore city and were administered cattle questionnaires for surveying anxiety and the shortened ge...

Whether stress and infertility are linked as cause or consequence is unclear, and there is no consensus on the most appropriate methods for measuring stress in infertile women. To address this question, we measured changes in biochemical and questionnaire-based assessments of stress in infertile women. Median baseline, follicular phase and pre-operative serum prolactin (229, 311 and 457 mIU/l) ...

Background Infertility may have many emotional and psychological implications on infertile couples. So far, different methods for reducing anxiety in infertile couples have been evaluated. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of provision of information regarding infertility treatment to infertile couples on their anxiety levels. MaterialsAndMethods This study was conducted as a bef...

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease encompasses a group of pregnancy-related disorders that derive from the placenta. Taking Leventhal’s Common Sense Model as a starting point, this study aims to investigate how illness perception could influence patients’ psychological adaptation to these rare diseases. Thirty-seven women completed: the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised, the Beck Depressi...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:346:"The problem of infertility as a public health problem of global dimensions of physical, mental and social, Since the cause of anxiety and depression in infertile women may be lack adequate knowledge about the causes of infertility and its treatment, so we decided to investigate the effect of training on reducing anxiety in infertile women.";s:19:"MaterialsAndMethod...