ArticleJournal of assisted reproduction and genetics2025
Mental health screening and psychological support should be the standard of care in fertility clinics.
Article in Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stratified Psychosocial Care in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework Across the IVF Pathway.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Infertile women's experience of stressful dilemmas during assisted reproductive technology treatment.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Infertility affects up to one in six individuals, a common diagnosis that, like most chronic health conditions, comes with an array of physical, emotional, social, and economical challenges. Currently, less than a fourth of individuals undergoing care for infertility utilize mental health services for a myriad of reasons including but not limited to access, cost, travel time, and lack of knowledge of what care would entail. By improving psychological well-being, infertility patients may increase their relationship satisfaction, coping mechanisms for grief and guilt that frequently come with the diagnosis, adherence to treatment, and even chances at achieving a successful pregnancy. In this paper, I argue that mental health services should be incorporated into standard fertility care visits, spearheaded by licensed and experienced mental health professionals to screen and assess a patient's needs and risk of distress, to not only achieve the aforementioned benefits of mental health counseling, but also improve their overall well-being.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.