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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Association between Stigma and Anxiety, Depression, and Psychological Distress among Japanese Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment.

Rie Yokota, Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada, Eiko Goto, Keiko Sakakibara, Takahiro Kiuchi

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rie YokotaDepartment of Health Communication, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1973-2493
Tsuyoshi OkuharaDepartment of Health Communication, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6251-3587
Hiroko OkadaDepartment of Health Communication, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Eiko GotoDepartment of Health Communication, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Keiko SakakibaraDepartment of Social Psychology, Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University, Tokyo 112-8606, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3188-0162
Takahiro KiuchiDepartment of Health Communication, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
University of Tokyo Health Sciences · JPToyo University · JP

Funding

JSPS KAKENHI 19K10615, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Japan has the highest number of cases of infertility treatment in the world. Studies have indicated that women undergoing infertility treatment feel stigmatized and suffer from psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression. However, in Japan, few studies have quantitatively examined the association between the stigma of infertility and psychological symptoms, and, to our knowledge, no study has examined its association using a scale with tested reliability and validity. This study aims to quantitatively examine the relationship between infertility stigma and anxiety, depression, and psychological distress among women undergoing infertility treatment, using a scale that has been validated for reliability and validity. The cross-sectional study was conducted in December 2021 through a web-based survey of 254 participants undergoing infertility treatment. A multiple regression analysis was performed to examine the relationship between stigma and anxiety, depression, and psychological distress. Stigma was a statistically significant predictor of anxiety, depression, and psychological distress (standardized β = 0.58, p < 0.001; β = 0.50, p < 0.001; β = 0.62, p < 0.001, respectively) after controlling for sociodemographic and infertility characteristics. Future studies should examine the causal relationship between stigma and anxiety, depression, and psychological distress and how to intervene to reduce stigma among women undergoing infertility treatment.

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anxietydepressionhealth communicationinfertilitymental healthpsychological distressstigmawomen

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