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"In Cycles of Dreams, Despair, and Desperation:" Research Perspectives on Infertility Specific Distress in Patients Undergoing Fertility Treatments.
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- Communication of Diagnosis of Infertility: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Stratified Psychosocial Care in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework Across the IVF Pathway.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Sociodemographic and medical correlates of fertility-related quality of life in primary infertile Czech couples attending fertility clinics.Health psychology report · 2026Article
- Stand-Alone Mobile Mindfulness App for People Experiencing Infertility: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (MoMiFer-RCT).Psychologica Belgica · 2025Article
- Guidelines to manage women with infertility: an e-Delphi study.African health sciences · 2024Article
- Low Birth Weight is Associated with Sperm DNA Fragmentation and Assisted Reproductive Technology Outcomes in Primary Infertile Men: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study.The world journal of men's health · 2024Article
- An insurmountable obstacle: Experiences of Chinese women undergoing in vitro fertilization.PloS one · 2024Article
- A comparative analysis on fertility success among physician specialties.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022Article
- Vulnerability and the Ethics of Human Germline Genome Editing.The CRISPR journal · 2022Article
- An Epistemological Perspective of Integrated Multidisciplinary Treatment When Dealing With Infertile Women With a Parenthood Goal: The Importance of Matterpsychic Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Working With Infertile Couples Seeking Assisted Reproduction: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study With Infertility Care Providers.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Mediating role of social support between sleep quality, anxiety and depressive symptoms in Chinese women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment.SAGE open medicine · 2020Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
"Emotional distress in infertility" is a broad expression that loosely denotes anxiety, depression, grief, crisis, depleting psychological well-being, and all forms of affective and interpersonal disturbances faced by individuals with infertility. The distress is usually associated with involuntary childlessness as it is an unwelcoming event. The developmental crisis associated with childlessness poses a threat to one's sense of self at all levels (individual, family and social). Distress may begin before or during treatments as a person experiences the loss of control over attaining parenthood, anxiety or dejection after the diagnosis, treatments, its complications particularly its limited success rates. This paper reviews the basic concepts, theoretical models related to infertility specific distress (ISD). It elaborates on the effects of individual and treatment-specific variables on ISD with special highlights gathered from the national and international research.
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