objective: to determine the effect of group cognitive behavior therapy (cbt) on psychological hardiness and coping strategies of infertile women undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (art). methods: two groups of infertile women who received art consisted of experimental group (15 females) and control group (16 females) were compared. the participants in experimental group received 15 sessio...

background: infertility is a stressful event that can give rise to psychological difficulties. now, a wide range of psychosocial interventions for infertile couples has been developed. objective: purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) to reduce stress, anxiety and depression of women undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (art). materials...

Background: Infertility as a crisis in the life of infertile couples led to difficulty in accepting and using treatment. This review aims at studying the forms of complementary medicine and its impact on infertile. Materials and Methods: Study overview, the present internet search at time scales from 1999 to 2013 databases iranian and international iranmedex, EMBASE, Uptodate, Scopus, Science- ...

OBJECTIVE To compare life satisfaction between women with successful or unsuccessful outcome after assisted reproductive treatment (ART) by taking into account the time since the last ART. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Tertiary hospital. PATIENTS A total of 987 consecutive women who had undergone ART during 1996-2007 were invited and altogether 505 women participated in the study. INTERV...

Research in the field of Ambient Assisted Living gained considerable momentum over the last decade and the diversity of existing applications is matched by a broad variety of implementation approaches. This paper takes a closer look at existing work in this field and provides a structured overview over state-ofthe-art implementation concepts.

background:   objective: the aim of our study was to assess the effect of storage duration of frozen embryo on art outcome.   materials and methods: in this retrospective study the data of 651 frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles were assessed over a 36-months period. our patients were categorized according to storage time of freeze. group i: less than 90 days, group ii: between 90-365 days. gr...

objective: this study aimed to evaluate the effect of seasonal variability on the assisted reproductive technique (art) success rate. materials and methods: this study was a descriptive – analytical survey performed on 91 infertile women undergoing  intracytoplasmic sperm injection – embryo transfer (icsi-et) in different seasons. the patients aged less than 35 years old and had normal lh/fsh r...

background: knowledge of infertile couples about assisted reproductive technology is a fundamental parameter to optimize the infertility treatment and conduct it cooperatively. objective: to evaluate knowledge and attitude of infertile couples about assisted reproductive technology we designed a descriptive cross-sectional study. materials and methods: 400 infertile patients were investigated b...

background: preterm labor (ptl) is one of the most important causes in neonatal mortality and morbidity. late preterm labor (34-36w) includes 75% of such birth. assisted reproductive technology (art) pregnant women are at increased risk of ptl. objective: the study has been undertaken to determine whether beginning and continuing 17-α hydroxy progesterone caproate can reduce risk of ptl or chan...