The relationship between stress and infertility

KL Rooney, AD Domar - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The relationship between stress and infertility has been debated for years. Women with
infertility report elevated levels of anxiety and depression, so it is clear that infertility causes …

Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for psychological and pregnancy outcomes in infertile women and men: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Frederiksen, I Farver-Vestergaard, NG Skovgård… - BMJ open, 2015 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To evaluate the evidence on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for
improving pregnancy rates and reducing distress for couples in treatment with assisted …

Cultural meaning of perceived control: a meta-analysis of locus of control and psychological symptoms across 18 cultural regions.

C Cheng, SF Cheung, JH Chio, MS Chan - Psychological bulletin, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Integrating more than 40 years of studies on locus of control (LOC), this meta-analysis
investigated whether (a) the magnitude of the relationship between LOC and psychological …

Lifestyle and fertility: the influence of stress and quality of life on female fertility

S Palomba, J Daolio, S Romeo, FA Battaglia… - Reproductive Biology …, 2018 - Springer
There is growing evidence that lifestyle choices account for the overall quality of health and
life (QoL) reflecting many potential lifestyle risks widely associated with alterations of the …

Anxiety and depression after failure of assisted reproductive treatment among patients experiencing infertility

S Maroufizadeh, E Karimi, S Vesali… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the impact of the number of previous infertility treatment failures on
anxiety and depression. Methods In a cross-sectional study, individuals (men and women …

The effects of psychosocial interventions on the mental health, pregnancy rates, and marital function of infertile couples undergoing in vitro fertilization: a systematic …

L Ying, LH Wu, AY Loke - Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, 2016 - Springer
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of psychosocial interventions
on the mental health, pregnancy rates, and marital function of infertile couples undergoing in …

Female subfertility

CM Farquhar, S Bhattacharya, S Repping… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Subfertility is common and affects one in six couples, half of whom lack an explanation for
their delay in conceiving. Developments in the diagnosis and treatment of subfertility over …

Childbearing, infertility, and career trajectories among women in medicine

JB Bakkensen, KS Smith, EO Cheung… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although women are increasingly represented within medicine, gender
disparities persist in time to promotion, achievement of academic rank, and appointment to …

[HTML][HTML] Implantation failure of endometrial origin: it is not pathology, but our failure to synchronize the developing embryo with a receptive endometrium

CT Valdes, A Schutt, C Simon - Fertility and Sterility, 2017 - Elsevier
Repeated implantation failure (RIF) is an intriguing, massive failure of reproductive treatment
in otherwise healthy women leading to the introduction of empirical adjuvant interventions …

Impact of sleep patterns upon female neuroendocrinology and reproductive outcomes: a comprehensive review

G Beroukhim, E Esencan, DB Seifer - Reproductive Biology and …, 2022 - Springer
Sleep is vital to human bodily function. Growing evidence indicates that sleep deprivation,
disruption, dysrhythmia, and disorders are associated with impaired reproductive function …