background: millions of men and women suffer from infertility worldwide.in many cultures, infertile women are at risk of social and emotional problems.infertility may affect the public health in many countries. domestic violence is the intentional use of physical force, power or threat against oneself, another person or another group or community whichleadstoinjury,death,mentalharm, lackofdevel...

objective: since health related quality of life is an important issue for infertile couples a review was conducted to examine the literature. materials and methods: this was a minireview of the literature covering all full publications that have been appeared in the english language biomedical journals. the search strategy included a combination of key words ‘quality of life', ‘infertility, and...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, infertility affects 10%-15% of couples and most of them seek medical help including Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) treatments. Undergoing ART treatments create many physical and emotional burdens. This study examined the psychological consequences of infertility in Iranian infertile males and females as well as their spouses, unlike previous studies that examined m...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a major psychosocial crisis as well as being a medical problem. The factors that predict psychosocial consequences of infertility may vary in different gender and different infertile populations. OBJECTIVE The primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether Turkish infertile couples had higher levels of depression and anxiety when compared to non-infertile c...

objective: infertility is an important social concern. environmental factors such as smoking and tobacco consumption can affect sperm and follicular function and infertility. smoke cessation reduces its complications and makes infertility treatment more effective which motivates and encourages infertile smokers to consider quitting. the aim of current study was to assess brief smoking cessation...

reduced sperm quantity and motility are primary causes of infertility in men. before researchers showed that, nsun7 gene has roles in sperm motility of mouse, that creation defect in this gene is cause infertility. this gene in human located in chromosome 4, with 12 exons and a hot spot exon (exon7). our aim is study of the mutations of the exon7 in the normospermic and asthenoteratospermic men...

background: infections are one of the correctable causes of infertility with low cost and cost effective treatment. the 50% of infertile cases is related to men in some way, and 30% of them are absolutely related to them. mycoplasmas are the smallest microorganisms with capability of dna replication. present study is planned to compare the mycoplasma infection in infertile men and men with esta...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a severely distressing experience for many couples. Depression is considered as one of the main psychological disorders associated with infertility and it may significantly affect the life of infertile individuals, their treatment, and follow-up. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to determining the prevalence and predisposing factors of depressive disorders am...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (including HIV) and of high-risk sexual behaviour in the following three groups: primary infertile relationships, secondary infertile relationships and fertile relationships. Primary infertility is here defined as never having conceived before, secondary infertility as infertility subsequent to having conceived at lea...

Dermatoglyphics in infertile male patients were studied and compared with that of age matched controls to see whether any specific dermatoglyphic pattern exists in infertile male patients. Infertile male patients with abnormal semen profile were referred to Cytogenetic Laboratory for karyotyping. We selected twenty-four infertile male patients with abnormal semen profile. Out of twenty-four inf...