ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
Psychological assessment in infertility: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Prevalence and contributing factors of depression among women with infertility in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Stratified Psychosocial Care in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework Across the IVF Pathway.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Depression, Anxiety and Stress Among Women Treated Due to Infertility.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Brain activation, sleep disturbances, and psychological distress in women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Relationship Instability Following Pregnancy Loss or Infertility.Family transitions (Philadelphia, Penn.) · 2026Article
- Prevalence of infertility and its risk factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2025Article
- The burden of infertility in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a high-fertility region: a cross-sectional study.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Decisional conflicts of male patients undergoing Assisted Reproductive Technology: a qualitative study.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Using network analysis to identify central symptoms of depression and anxiety in different profiles of infertility patients.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychological health conditions of ART treated infertile couples: a 4-years prospective study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Modifiable life style factors and male reproductive health: a cross-sectional study in IVF clinic attendees in Ghana.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Article
- Validation and dyadic invariance of the Infertility Concerns Questionnaire among Brazilian couples.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Infertility grief and filiation experiences 25 years later: detection of multiple cases from the mixed methods approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Psychological distress in women with primary and secondary infertility: a comparative analysis of depression, anxiety, and stress.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Network analysis of stress and stigma symptoms and their associations with quality of life among Chinese female infertility patients.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Psychiatric Considerations of Infertility.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- The SCREENIVF Hungarian version is a valid and reliable measure accurately predicting possible depression in female infertility patients.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- The Association of Anxiety and Perceived Stress withJournal of human reproductive sciencesArticle
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Infertility is a prevalent worldwide health issue and is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global health problem. Considering the importance of the psychological dimensions of infertility, various measurement tools have been used to measure the variables involved in infertility, of which the most widely used are the following: the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL90), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form (STAI), and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS). Therefore, given the problems of infertile people in terms of psychological dimensions, the aim of this meta-analysis was to assess the psychological assessment score in infertility. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol, we applied an online database with no time restriction. Data were gathered using a random-effect model to estimate the standard mean difference (SMD) for the evaluation of the strength of association analyses. Our data demonstrated a significant higher SCL90 score (
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