Trial reportWomen's health (London, England)
Home ovulation test use and stress during subfertility evaluation: Subarm of a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Women's health (London, England). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06127875 (Effects of Trying to Conceive Using an Home- or Hospital-based Ovulation Monitoring on Stress), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Effects of Trying to Conceive Using an Home- or Hospital-based Ovulation Monitoring on Stress
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Ultrasound-Guided Ovulation Monitoring Versus Home Ovulation Tests and Psychosocial Outcomes in Subfertile Couples: Prospective Cohort Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Ovulation Calculators on the Stress Levels of Fertility-Seeking Couples: An Evaluation Study.Cureus · 2023Article
- Jointly modelling longitudinally measured urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin and early pregnancy outcomes.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesA prospective, randomized controlled trial in women seeking to conceive examined the impact of using ovulation tests on self-reported levels of stress, psychological well-being, and quality of life in women with unexplained infertility.
methodThe test group used a home ovulation test to detect the day of ovulation, whereas the control group were provided with a predicted day of ovulation based on the average length of menstrual cycle reported during study recruitment. Volunteers collected their first morning urine samples to evaluate biochemical levels of stress (urinary cortisol and estrone-3-glucouronide) and completed questionnaires over two complete menstrual cycles.
resultsOverall, the use of digital ovulation tests by sub-fertile women under medical care had negligible negative effects and no detectable positive benefit on psychological well-being, according to multiple measurements of stress by questionnaire and biochemical markers. No significant differences were found between groups for all stress measures at the various study time points, except in relation to "couple concordance" where the test group scored much higher than the control group (mean difference at end of study was 21.25 (95% confidence interval: 9.25, 33.25; P = 0.0015)). The maximum difference in log cortisol: creatinine ratio between the test and control groups was -0.28 (95% confidence interval: -0.69, 0.13).
conclusionsThese results do not support propositions that using digital ovulation tests can cause stress in women trying to conceive.
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