Using a random sample of 580 Midwestern women, we test the hypothesis that women who have experienced infertility report higher psychological distress. Approximately one third of our sample reports having experienced infertility sometime in their lives, although the majority of the infertile now have biological children. Drawing hypotheses from identity and stress theories, we examine whether r...

Evaluation of Infertility-related Stress and its Associated Factors in Infertile Clients: A Cross-Sectional Study

STUDY QUESTION Are severe depressive symptoms in women and men associated with individual and dyadic infertility-related stress in couples undergoing infertility treatment? SUMMARY ANSWER Severe depressive symptoms were significantly associated with increased infertility-related distress at both the individual and partner level. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY?: An infertility diagnosis, the stress of ...

oxidative stress is one of the important causes of the type 1 diabetes induced changes in the sperm quality. bioflavonoids, rutin 10 mg/kg and naringin 10 mg/kg were evaluated for their protective effects on sperm parameters, oxidative stress, and histopathology of type 1 diabetic rats. results demonstrated the reduction in sperm count, sperm motility and vitality in diabetic rats. mass drug ad...

background: infertility is defined as the inability to achieve the pregnancy within a year of unprotected intercourse. infertility is a complex issue and different factors such as stress oxidative can be involved in this problem. so, any attempt to neutralize oxidative stress would be helpful in the treatment of infertility. melatonin is a known scavenger of free radicals. objective: the aim of...

background: sperm dna damage is an important factor in the etiology of male infertility. objective: the aim of the study was to evaluate the association of oxidative stress induced sperm dna damage with the pathogenesis of male infertility. materials and methods: the study comprised a total of 66 subjects, including fertile men (n=25) and infertile men (n=41) matched by age. seminal malondialde...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristic child-rearing problems for mothers of multiple children who conceived after infertility treatment as compared to mothers of multiple children who conceived spontaneously. The subjects were 990 mothers of multiple children: 359 who conceived after infertility treatment and 631 who conceived spontaneously. Mothers who conceived after inf...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between occupational psychological stress and female fertility. METHODS This was a case-control study including consecutive working female patients attending fertility and in vitro fertilization clinics in the Soroka University Medical Center. We compared occupational stress between 64 working patients who had attended the clinics due to female inferti...

background : infertility causes psychological and emotional tension in the couples and makes severe stress on infertile men and women. relaxation technique is one of the methods that reduces the stress and can balance the human’s emotions. this study aimed to determine the effect of relaxation on the infertile women’s stress score. methods : this was a semi-experimental and clinical trial study...