background: the purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of emotionally focused therapy (eft-c) on promoting marital adjustment of infertile couples with marital conflicts by improving quality of life. materials and methods: this is a semi-experimental study with a pre- and post–test design in which 30 infertile couples (60 individuals) were chosen by purposive sampling. couples wer...

Louise Brown was born thirty years ago as the world’s first “test-tube” baby. Numerous speculations and concerns were linked to this event, some of them related to the psychosocial aspects of infertility and of assisted reproduction.The last few years have brought huge advances in the understanding of the psychosocial aspects of infertility. This review begins with a presentation of the importa...

INTRODUCTION Infertility is a major crisis that can cause psychological problems and emotionally distressing experiences, and eventually affect a couples' relationship. The objective of this study is to investigate couple burnout in infertile couples who were undergoing treatmentat the Infertility Clinic of Yazd, Iran. METHOD The present study is a cross-sectional descriptive one on 98 infert...

BACKGROUND Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is recommended as a first-line investigation for tubal assessment of infertile women. This investigation is not routinely available to GPs. AIM To explore the perceptions and attitudes of patients and health professionals to open access HSG for the initial management of infertile couples in general practice. DESIGN OF STUDY A nested qualitative study u...

BACKGROUND Sexual problems have different effects on the life of people by influencing their interpersonal and marital relationships and satisfaction. Relationship between sexual dysfunctions and infertility can be mutual. Sexual dysfunction may cause difficulty conceiving but also attempts to conceive, may cause sexual dysfunction. OBJECTIVE This paper compares sexual dysfunction in fertile ...

OBJECTIVES The objective was to evaluate seminal fluid indices of male partners of infertile couples so as to identify the current status of the contributions of male factor to infertility in our environment. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a prospective study of the seminal fluid indices of consecutively consenting male partners of infertile couples seen at the Fertility and Endocrinology Rese...

Background Due to high prevalence of infertility, increasing demand for infertility treatment, and provision of high quality of fertility care, it is necessary for healthcare professionals to explore infertile couples’ expectations and needs. Identification of these needs can be a prerequisite to plan the effective supportive interventions. The current study was, therefore, conducted in an atte...

abstract background: identification of the main needs of infertile patients is essential to provision of appropriate supportive services and care based on their needs. thus, the present study aims to explore infertile couples’ counseling needs. materials and methods: this study was carried out with an inductive qualitative content analysis approach during 2012–2013. the participants of this stu...

background: the prevalence of infertility is variable between 5-30% around the world. in iran, more than 2 million couples suffer from infertility. infertility causes depression, anxiety, social isolation and sexual dysfunction. objective: this descriptive study was undertaken to determine general health in infertile couples. materials and methods: one hundred and fifty infertile couples attend...